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An Efficient Hierarchical Group Key Management Protocol for a Ubiquitous Computing Environment

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 (ICCSA 2006)

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We propose a new centralized hierarchical group key management protocol for a ubiquitous computing environment. The proposed scheme only uses XOR and hash operations during group key updates. Moreover, the order of the total message size sent during key updates is O(log n), where n is the size of the group. As a result, our scheme is very practical, scalable, and well suited for low-power mobile devices. We have also proved the security of our proposed protocol.

This work was supported by the Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea, under the HNRC-ITRC program supervised by the IITA.

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  1. School of Internet Media Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Republic of Korea

    Sangjin Kim

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea

    Taewook Ahn & Heekuck Oh

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd.,, Cathedral House 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Kim, S., Ahn, T., Oh, H. (2006). An Efficient Hierarchical Group Key Management Protocol for a Ubiquitous Computing Environment. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751632_42

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