Title
An efficient LKH tree balancing algorithm for group key management
Abstract
The efficiency and security of secure group communication are dependent on the group key manager (GKM), which manages the group keys and membership. Although a GKM can employ any kind of group key management algorithm, we adopt the logical key hierarchy (LKH) for its efficiency and scalability. LKH is a tree-based group key management algorithm, which is more efficient when the key tree is balanced. However, only a few papers or documents have dealt with practical tree balancing techniques so far. In this letter, we propose LKH tree manager, an LKH key tree balancing algorithm that is efficient for a large and highly dynamic secure group.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1603391
IEEE Communications Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security,Costs,Scalability,Spine,Laboratories,Electronic mail,Telecommunication computing,Context,Fault tolerance
Key management,Group key,Telecommunications network,Cryptography,Computer science,Tree (data structure),Communication in small groups,Group key management,Algorithm,Computer network,Theoretical computer science,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
3
1089-7798
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.63
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Deuk-Whee Kwak1131.83
Seungjoo Lee2426.57
Jongwon Kim31042153.38
Eunjin Jung412513.06