Efficient Key Tree Construction for Group Key Agreement in Ad Hoc Networks

• Main Authors: WAN, Zhiguo, ZHU, B., DENG, Robert H., Bao, Feng, Ananda, A. L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/596
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we propose a highly efficient key agreement scheme based on a novel key tree construction for ad hoc networks. The key tree is constructed taking into consideration of the multicast tree which represents the underlying network topology. Our scheme greatly reduces the communications an...