Analysis of the Impact of Encryption on the Traffic Volumes of IoT Protocols

Authors

  • Viktor Kozel
  • Oleksii Ivanchuk
  • Ievgeniia Drozdova
  • Olena Prykhodko

Keywords:

Internet of Things, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, WirelessHART, 6LoWPAN, NB-IoT, AES, Data packet size, Encryption

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of increasing traffic volumes due to the availability of encryption. Data packets of the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 6LoWPAN standards, and the ZigBee, WirelessHART, and NB-IoT protocols were considered for testing the impact. Based on information about the data packets, it was determined which parts of the packet were to be encrypted and by what algorithm. Since there is an impact on the volume of the data packets, its study was carried out. For this purpose, graphs of the dependence of the volume of additions on the payload volume were built. The resulting graphs have a sawtooth shape because the addition will be the maximum possible size at a specific payload size. It was concluded that the Wi-Fi standard is the best in conditions without restrictions on the payload size, and NB-IoT is the worst. In conditions of the limited size of the payload, ZigBee is the best, and NB-IoT is the worst.

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2025-10-02

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Kozel, V., Ivanchuk, O., Drozdova, I., & Prykhodko, O. (2025). Analysis of the Impact of Encryption on the Traffic Volumes of IoT Protocols. International Journal of Computing, 24(3), 585-592. Retrieved from https://computingonline.net/computing/article/view/4196

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