An Elliptic Curve Menezes–Qu–Vanston-Based Authentication and Encryption Protocol for IoT

Table 3

Evaluation of single key-pair generation.

Methods	ECC-bits	Time (μs)	Energy (μJ)
Traditional PKI based	P-160	9.493	6.1
	P-192	13.25	18
	P-224	16.2425	27.34
Cloud-based protocol	P-160	2.002	0.797
	P-192	6.258	1.13
	P-224	5.767	2.01
Edge base proposed protocol	P-160	1.305	0.634
	P-192	3.893	0.93
	P-224	4.538	1.89