A Survey of Green, Energy-Aware Security and Some of Its Recent Developments in Networking and Mobile Computing

Abstract

Since its inception, the field of Green, Energy-Aware Security (GEAS) has gathered momentum and has seen many interesting developments in some of its different declinations. In this paper we will analyze some of the most recent evolutions and we will summarize the current state of the art describing some of the most interesting and promising advancements. More in details, we will focus on i) energy management in network nodes, ii) exploitation of security mechanisms to save energy and iii) use of energy consumption as a marker for malicious activities in energy constrained computational platforms.