2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Key Establishment Scheme for Providing Secure Multicasting over Bluetooth Scatternets

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469387,
        author={Subir Biswas and Syed Rehan Afzal and Jong-bin Koh and Mustafa Hasan and Gunhee Lee and Dong-kyoo  Kim},
        title={A Key Establishment Scheme for Providing Secure Multicasting over Bluetooth Scatternets},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={Bluetooth Piconet Scatternet Master node Master key},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469387}
    }
    
  • Subir Biswas
    Syed Rehan Afzal
    Jong-bin Koh
    Mustafa Hasan
    Gunhee Lee
    Dong-kyoo Kim
    Year: 2008
    A Key Establishment Scheme for Providing Secure Multicasting over Bluetooth Scatternets
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469387
Subir Biswas1,*, Syed Rehan Afzal1,*, Jong-bin Koh1,*, Mustafa Hasan1,*, Gunhee Lee1,*, Dong-kyoo Kim1,*
  • 1: Graduate School of Information and Communication, Ajou University,San 5 Wonchun Dong, Yeongtong, Suwon- 443 749, Republic of Korea
*Contact email: subir@ajou.ac.kr, rehan@ajou.ac.kr, nitefly@ajou.ac.kr, hasan@ajou.ac.kr, icezzoco@ajou.ac.kr, dkkim@ajou.ac.kr

Abstract

Secure multicasting is one of the major requirements for today’s communication arena. And for any kind of secure communication, a key-distribution scheme is the most sensible part. Being a highly promising, low-cost, and emerging wireless technology, Bluetooth has key distribution supports for secure multicasting over its unit one-hop network, piconet. Bluetooth core specification [1] defines basic security protocols for key generation, encryption, and authentication for intra-piconet security. However, not much attention has been paid so far on securing multicasting over the Bluetooth Scatternet; nevertheless, multicasting is quite a sensible aspect of modern communication arena. Here in this paper, we extend the piconets key distribution scheme to present a new key management scheme for secure multicasting over Bluetooth Scatternets. Our key management scheme is compatible to the current Bluetooth architecture design as we rely on Bluetooth’s existing security algorithms to propose our resolution.