A New Key Management Method for Ad Hoc Networks

Chun  Liu; Jianwei Liu; Qishan   Zhang

1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A New Key Management Method for Ad Hoc Networks

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    author={Chun  Liu and Jianwei Liu and Qishan   Zhang},
    title={A New Key Management Method for Ad Hoc Networks},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2007},
    month={4},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344843}
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Chun Liu
Jianwei Liu
Qishan Zhang
Year: 2007
A New Key Management Method for Ad Hoc Networks
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344843

Chun Liu¹^,*, Jianwei Liu¹, Qishan Zhang¹

1: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University Beijing 100083, China

*Contact email: shniu@ee.buaa.edu.cn

Abstract

Some security-sensitive fields like military scenarios are the main application areas of ad hoc networks. In those areas, security issues have to be considered seriously for the network. In this paper, a key management method based on the combined public key is proposed for ad hoc networks. Through this method, private and public key pairs can be distributed to nodes of ad hoc networks efficiently. No certificate or other authentic channel is needed while two nodes perform authentication and key agreement protocol. The key management method is especially suitable for ad hoc networks, which has no fixed infrastructure and has constrained resources.

Published: 2007-04-10
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344843