The Mathematics Behind Key Management in Group Communication

International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering

© 2018 by SSRG - IJCSE Journal

Volume 5 Issue 1

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Dr G Padmavathi

10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V5I1P103

How to Cite?

Dr G Padmavathi, "The Mathematics Behind Key Management in Group Communication ," SSRG International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering , vol. 5,  no. 1, pp. 9-14, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V5I1P103

Abstract:

Secure Group Communication is a challenging task today because of many threats the Internet is facing. Many group oriented applications are upcoming because of the increased use of Internet for many personal and business applications. Maintaining the secrecy in a group communication is challenging because of group member‟s dynamism. Cryptographic keys are generated and distributed to the communicating parties for secure communication among group members to maintain the forward and backward secrecy of communication. The important overheads in secure group communication are storage efficiency and communication efficiency. The formulation of minimization of storage and communication overheads is studied and the fundamental structure for the total overheads minimization is a constraint optimization problem. This paper briefly discusses some of the existing group key distribution models. Different Virtual trees for key distribution are also discussed. The constraint optimization problem is presented with the plausible solution.

Keywords:

Multicast communication, group key, storage efficiency, communication efficiency, constraint optimization.

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