An ICMetric based key generation scheme for controlled group communication

Secure group controlled communication refers to a dynamic environment that ensures secure collaboration among the participating group members. It is wrong to view group security as an aggravation of the simple one to one communication because the group is a dynamic environment composed of activities that are only exhibited by individuals in a group environment. Also as the number of hosts and clients increases the complexity of the communication security also increases. In this paper a security scheme is presented that allows group members to generate keys for group environment using the latest ICMetrics technology. The ICMetric technology is a breakthrough technology because it uses the unique features/attributes of a system to generate a number that can be used to identify the system uniquely. The proposed scheme in this paper uses the ICMetric technology for key generation and key distribution to provide secure communications in a group. To test the scalability properties of the scheme it has been simulated and a comparative study has been performed based on the running time of the algorithm.