IEEE 802.15.4

The IEEE 802.15.4 is a specification for the physical and MAC layers of wireless personal area networks.

Security

IEEE 802.15.4 media access control layer defines different security modes based on the AES block cipher:

• Null: neither encryption nor authentication. Default mode.
• Counter mode (CTR): Encryption only. No authentication.
• Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code (CBC-MAC): Authentication only.
• Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM): Encryption and authentication.

For the last two modes, the authentication tag can be 32, 64 or 128 bits.

Compliant transceivers

• CC2420
• CC2520
• CC2530

See also

• Zigbee

External links

• IEEE standard 802.15.4d-2009
• IEEE standard 802.15.4c-2009
• IEEE standard 802.15.4a-2007
• IEEE standard 802.15.4-2006
• IEEE standard 802.15.4-2003