MRP: An Energy Efficient Network Protocol That Avoids Multiple Encryption in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

To ensure the security of data transmission on the Internet, users usually encrypt the data during the process of sending and receiving data. For example, the commonly used HTTPS protocol verifies the identity of servers through TLS certificates and encrypts communication between browsers and servers. However, the encrypted part of the unstructured data is still re-encrypted by TLS during HTTPS transmission, wasting computing and energy resources. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient network protocol, namely MRP, that avoids multiple encryption. MRP could carry multiple types of application layer protocols, while freely configure the location and encryption approaches of the data that needs to be encrypted. Based on our proposed, users could freely segment application layer data, achieve on-demand encryption of data, reduce encryption costs without compromising user security requirements, avoid redundant double encryption and save energy.