4th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks

Research Article

A Heterogeneity-Aware Framework for Group Key Management in Wireless Mesh Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1460877.1460918,
        author={Xia Wang and Johnny Wong and Wensheng Zhang},
        title={A Heterogeneity-Aware Framework for Group Key Management in Wireless Mesh Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={SECURECOMM},
        year={2008},
        month={9},
        keywords={Wireless Mesh Network Heterogeneity-aware Group Key Management},
        doi={10.1145/1460877.1460918}
    }
    
  • Xia Wang
    Johnny Wong
    Wensheng Zhang
    Year: 2008
    A Heterogeneity-Aware Framework for Group Key Management in Wireless Mesh Networks
    SECURECOMM
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1460877.1460918
Xia Wang1,*, Johnny Wong1,*, Wensheng Zhang1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011
*Contact email: jxiawang@iastate.edu, wong@cs.iastate.edu, wzhang@cs.iastate.edu

Abstract

In this work we proposed a novel heterogeneity-aware group key management framework (HAGK) for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). In our framework a WMN multicast session involves both stationary backbone nodes and mobile client nodes: for backbone nodes which are topologically-stable but may spread over a large area, the distributed threshold-based group key management technique is applied; for client nodes associated with each backbone node which are mobile but confined in a limited area, the logical key hierarchical technique is applied. The results showed that HAGK reduces rekeying delay and storage overhead at end nodes with minimum communication costs. In addition, the framework is resilient to attacks.