A Novel Group Key Establishment Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Liu Zhiyuan ; Wu Jian-she ; Ji Peng

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Huangshi Inst. of Technol., Huangshi, China

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

530

Lastpage

533

Abstract

In mobile ad hoc networks, due to unreliable wireless media, nodes mobility and lack of infrastructure, providing a key establishment scheme is a challenge in this unique network environment. In this paper, a novel group key establishment scheme is proposed for secure communications in ad hoc networks. The nodes in network are divided into two parties: cell group consisting of group members and control group consisting of cell group controller. A centralized key establishment scheme is employed in cell group and a decentralized scheme is employed in control group. In proposed scheme, an implicitly certified public key approach is used, which reduces the certificate overhead and improves computational efficiency.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; ad hoc networks; cell group controller; computational efficiency; key establishment scheme; public key approach; wireless media; Ad hoc networks; Centralized control; Communication system control; Communication system security; Data security; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Public key; Wireless networks; Key establishment; ad hoc network; secure channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Information Networking and Security, 2009. MINES '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3843-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5068-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MINES.2009.144

Filename

5370998