The Development Of The Lightweight IPSec Protocol Conformance Test Suite And Test Cases

IPSec protocol works as a significant part of IPv6, it has a better associativity with IPv6. Inaddtion to integrity protection, IPSec has data encryption capability which can also be negotiatedbefore communication. Wireless sensor nodes have limited storage space and computing power, thepower supply capacity is weak too. Consequently, IPSec protocol must be cut to get in line with therequirements of wireless sensor network application environments. What is more, protocolconformance testing campaign must be run to guarantee that different lightweight IPSecimplementations can communicate with each other.Firstly, the typical application scenarios of Wireless Sensor Networks based on IPv6are givenin the thesis, then the IPSec protocol is cut and the parameters of IPSec are adjusted to fit theseapplication scenarios which result in our lightweight IPSec protocol. In order to facilitate the designof test cases, this thesis also shows the flowcharts of the functions of the IPSec Protocol. Secondly,a protocol conformance testing system is designed on the basis of protocol conformance test systemtheories which can work well in the context of Wireless Sensor Networks based on IPv6, what ismore, the structure and usage is present in the thesis. Finally, we do the research on protocalconformance test and abstract conformance test suite specifications, then lightweight IPSec protocolconformance test suite and test cases are developed using the ISO/IEC-9646standards and TTCN-3language.