Robust Membership Management for Ad-hoc Groups

Reference:

Silja Mäki, Tuomas Aura, and Maarit Hietalahti. Robust membership management for ad-hoc groups. In Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC 2000), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 2000.

Abstract:

In ad-hoc networks, the network nodes or users often form peer groups. A group may share an application, a physical location, or administrative tasks. Defining who is a member of the group is also the first step towards establishing a shared secret key for secure communications. Group membership management involves adding and removing nodes in the group, as well as a method for authenticating the group members. In this paper, we present a fully distributed, certificate-based system for group membership management. It is designed to suit highly dynamic ad-hoc networks where communications is sporadic and nodes often fail unexpectedly.

Keywords:

security, ad hoc networks, group management

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{MakAurHie00,
    address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
    author = {Silja M\"aki and Tuomas Aura and Maarit Hietalahti},
    booktitle = {Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC 2000)},
    month = {October},
    title = {Robust Membership Management for Ad-hoc Groups},
    year = {2000},
}