Secure authenticated group key agreement protocol in the MANET environment

✍ Scribed by Chan Yeob Yeun; Kyusuk Han; Duc Liem Vo; Kwangjo Kim

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 352 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1363-4127
• DOI: 10.1016/j.istr.2008.10.002

✦ Synopsis

Authenticated group key agreement a b s t r a c t Due to dynamic and infrastructure-less nature of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) environment, there exist number of threats as mobile devices and nodes could freely move around in MANET such as eavesdropping of communications channels, modification of sensitive m-commerce transactions, Denial of Service(DoS), vulnerabilities of impersonation by malicious insiders etc. In this paper, we propose a novel authenticated group key agreement protocol for end-to-end security in the MANET environment without any infrastructure that is based on Burmester and Desmedt group key agreement protocol (Burmester