Secure Group Communications over Data Networks

✍ Scribed by Prof. Xukai Zou, Prof. Byrav Ramamurthy, Prof. Spyros S. Magliveras (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a concise survey of principles and state-of-the-art
techniques for secure group communications (SGC) over data networks.
It offers an overview of secure algorithms and protocols for group
communication linking areas such as applied cryptography and computer
networking. Also included is a coverage of challenges in deploying
secure group communication-based applications over wireless networks.
These challenges include the limited computational power of mobile
devices, susceptibility of wireless networks to intrusion and
unauthorized access and mobility of nodes in a wireless ad-hoc network
environment.

Secure Group Communications over Data Networks provides a wealth of
information for network architects, IT Professionals, computer
scientists, and advanced students of computer science and computer
engineering in the fields of networking, computer security and
software applications development.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-15
Typical Group Key Management Schemes....Pages 17-47
Tree Based Key Management Schemes....Pages 49-89
Dynamic Conferencing Schemes....Pages 91-103
Secure Group Communications with Hierarchical Access Control....Pages 105-126
SGC Challenges and SGC for Wireless Networks....Pages 127-148
Concluding Remarks....Pages 149-152

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Data Encryption; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks