mca 15(6): e4

Research Article

Multi-Service Group Key Management for High Speed Wireless Mobile Multicast Networks

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.11-8-2015.150093,
        author={Trust T.  Mapoka and Simon J.  Shepherd and Yousef A.S  Dama and Haider M.  Al Sabbagh and Raed A.  Abd-Alhameed},
        title={Multi-Service Group Key Management for High Speed Wireless Mobile Multicast Networks},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications},
        volume={2},
        number={6},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={MCA},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={mobile multicast communication, group key management, wireless networks, security},
        doi={10.4108/eai.11-8-2015.150093}
    }
    
  • Trust T. Mapoka
    Simon J. Shepherd
    Yousef A.S Dama
    Haider M. Al Sabbagh
    Raed A. Abd-Alhameed
    Year: 2015
    Multi-Service Group Key Management for High Speed Wireless Mobile Multicast Networks
    MCA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-8-2015.150093
Trust T. Mapoka1, Simon J. Shepherd1, Yousef A.S Dama2, Haider M. Al Sabbagh3, Raed A. Abd-Alhameed1,*
  • 1: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, United Kingdom
  • 2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 DP, United Kingdom 2Electrical Engineering, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestinian
  • 3: Electrical Engineering, Basra University, Basra, Iraq
*Contact email: r.a.a.abd@bradford.ac.uk

Abstract

Recently there is a high demand from the Internet Service Providers to transmit multimedia services over high speed wireless networks. These networks are characterized by high mobility receivers which perform frequent handoffs across homogenous and heterogeneous access networks while maintaining seamless connectivity to the multimedia services. In order to ensure secure delivery of multimedia services to legitimate group members, the conventional cluster based group key management (GKM) schemes for securing group communication over wireless mobile multicast networks have been proposed. However, they lack efficiency in rekeying the group key in the presence of high mobility users which concurrently subscribe to multiple multicast services that co-exist in the same network. This paper proposes an efficient multi-service group key management scheme (SMGKM) suitable for high mobility users which perform frequent handoffs while participating seamlessly in multiple multicast services. The users are expected to drop subscriptions after multiple cluster visits hence inducing huge key management overhead due to rekeying the previously visited cluster keys. The already proposed multi-service SMGKM system with completely decentralised authentication and key management functions is adopted to meet the demands for high mobility environment with the same level of security. Through comparisons with existing GKM schemes and simulations, SMGKM shows resource economy in terms of reduced communication and less storage overheads in a high speed environment with multiple visits.