An Efficient Rekeying Function Protocol with Multicast Key Distribution for Group Key Management in MANETs
N. Vimala, B Jayaram, R. Balasubramanian · 2011
Key management in the ad hoc network is a challenging issue concerning the security of the group communication. Group key management protocols can be approximately categorized into three: centralized, decentralized, and distributed. The much apt solution to provide the services like authentication, data integrity and data confidentiality is the establishment of a key management protocol. This paper proposes an approach for the design and analysis of region-based key management protocols with a new multicast key distribution scheme for scalable and reconfigurable group key management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The region-based group key management protocol partitions a group into region-based subgroups based on decentralized key management principles by using the Novel Re-Keying Function Protocol (NRFP). An issue is aroused by most