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Group key management is one of the key security issues in multicast networks. The main challenge is to provide a secure group key management method which avoids high key update cost in terms of the number of transmitted keys. In order to achieve low key update cost for group key management, most of the existing methods increase their encryption/decryption cycles which requires a strong cryptographic function. In this paper, a cost-effective key management method is proposed to address the problem of high key update cost without increasing the encryption/decryption cycles. We evaluated our proposed method with existing tree-based methods by using Markov chain and Poisson Arrival Process. Results indicate the efficiency of our proposed method in reducing the key update cost significantly compared to the existing tree-based key management methods.
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Mehdizadeh, A., Hashim, F., Abdullah, R.S.A.R. et al. Performance Evaluation of Cost-Effective Multicast–Unicast Key Management Method. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 2195–2212 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1633-2
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