Multi-session Key management scheme for multimedia group communications

The Internet 2 deployment introduces new capabilities, such as multi-party collaboration, high-scale multimedia assembly and multicast communication. For this reason, the research concerning security is facing new challenges. One such challenge is to create secure multi-session frameworks to ensure...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: JOSE ROBERTO PEREZ CRUZ, SAUL EDUARDO POMARES HERNANDEZ, GUSTAVO RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/1913
Acceso en línea:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1913
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/Key management/Key management
info:eu-repo/classification/Multi-session/Multi-session
info:eu-repo/classification/Multimedia/Multimedia
info:eu-repo/classification/Group communication/Group communication
info:eu-repo/classification/One key per packet/One key per packet
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/12
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1203
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Sumario:The Internet 2 deployment introduces new capabilities, such as multi-party collaboration, high-scale multimedia assembly and multicast communication. For this reason, the research concerning security is facing new challenges. One such challenge is to create secure multi-session frameworks to ensure the confidentiality of exchanged information. In a multi-session environment, several users are joined at two or more work sessions simultaneously. The confidentiality in these environments can be achieved using cryptographic methods. Unfortunately, the key management, necessary for such environments, creates two main problems: a high complexity in key distribution and a high storage cost. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-session key management mechanism for dynamic multimedia group communication. Our solution proposes a functional architecture that exploits the overlapping of the user sessions to reduce the redundancy in key distribution. The proposed key management makes use of two key generation strategies: a key derivation technique to reduce the rekey overhead and a pseudorandom number generator that allows the users to generate an independent key per cipher packet.