An efficient key management scheme for secure wireless multicast

Abstract

In the future, many multicast services will take place in the wireless domain. However, before these services can successfully be deployed, security infrastructures must be developed that manage the keys needed to provide access control to content. We present a method for designing multicast key management trees that are suitable for mobile wireless environments. By matching the key management tree to the cellular network topology, the total communication burden is reduced by 33%-45% compared to using the traditional key management trees that are independent of the topology.