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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 24 No. 6, pp. 1629-1646 (November 2008)

Shared Self-Organized GKM Protocol for MANETs*

Juan Hernandez Serrano1, Josep Pegueroles1 and Miguel Soriano1,2
1Department of Telematics Engineering Technical University of Catalonia
08034 Barcelona, Spain
2Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
08860 Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: {jserrano; josep.pegueroles; miguel.soriano}@entel.upc.edu

Services in MANETs tend to be decentralized in order to share their cost between their subscribers. Security is not an exception and thus shared self-organized security schemes must be provided. Group Key Management (GKM) deals with the responsibility of providing privacy and group authentication in group communications focusing in the dynamism of the group (joins and leaves). We present a shared self-organized GKM protocol targeted to MANETs. Main basis of the presented protocol is to extend GKM protocols based on logical trees of keys towards being non-centralized and self-created.

Keywords: MANET, GKM, group security, distributed, self-organized

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Received March 9, 2007; revised May 22 & August 20, 2007; accepted October 9, 2007.
Communicated by Chin-Laung Lei.
* This work was supported by the Spanish Research Council under Grants SECONNET (CICYT - TSI2005- 07293-C02-01) and the CONSOLIDER CSD2007-00004 ¡§ARES¡¨, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education.