1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Scalable Conference Key Management Scheme

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344876,
        author={Xu  Yanyan and Xu  Zhengquan and Li  Maoquan},
        title={A Scalable Conference Key Management Scheme},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2007},
        month={4},
        keywords={Conference Key Management De-centralized scalable},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344876}
    }
    
  • Xu Yanyan
    Xu Zhengquan
    Li Maoquan
    Year: 2007
    A Scalable Conference Key Management Scheme
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344876
Xu Yanyan1,*, Xu Zhengquan1,*, Li Maoquan1,*
  • 1: Multimedia Communication Engineering Center, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, WuHan University, P.R.China
*Contact email: xuyy@lmars.whu.edu.cn, xuzq@lmars.whu.edu.cn, limaoquan2000@tom.com

Abstract

The most important part of a secure conference is conference key management (CKM). Among its representative schemes, the de-centralized one inherits the merits of others. But current solutions are not very suitable for some real-time multicast applications such as videoconference, etc. In this paper, we present a scalable de-centralized CKM scheme, which called DCKM, the main idea is introduced and its advantages are analyzed. With our scheme, the problem of low efficiency in data transmission caused by multiple encryptions/decryptions in existing de-centralized schemes is solved, the data transmission efficiency is improved a lot, and the data latency is reduced. The forward/backward secrecy of conference is guaranteed, too. The DCKM is a secure, robust, scalable, high data transmission efficiency, cost effective CKM scheme.