Key Management for Overlay-based IPTV Content Delivery
Jabeom Gu, Jaehoon Nah · 2008
An overlay-based IPTV content delivery is a relatively new type of content delivery in which user devices such as set-top boxes are connected with one another to form a dynamic, virtual delivery path. In the network, each overlay node forwards data, which one has received from another overlay node. To ensure security of the IPTV content delivered through the overlay, we propose a new key management scheme. Key words: Overlay-based content delivery, IPTV security, group key management. 1.