TY - JOUR
T1 - A middleware service for secure group communication in mobile ad hoc networks
AU - Yau, Sik-Sang
AU - Zhang, Xinyu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported in part by National Science Foundation under grant number ANI-0123980. The authors would like to thank Dazhi Huang for many valuable discussions.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - Secure group communication (SGC) is required in many applications using mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Due to the mobility and limited resources of mobile devices used by group members, secure groups in a MANET may be required to be set up and maintained dynamically, and applications requiring SGC may request to change the secure groups according to network and application status. In this paper, a secure group model is presented to describe common characteristics of secure groups based on hierarchical authentication relations among the members in each secure group. Based on this model, a middleware service for SGC is developed to set up and maintain secure groups automatically and support development and runtime of applications using SGC in MANETs. This middleware service is implemented in a context-sensitive middleware RCSM.
AB - Secure group communication (SGC) is required in many applications using mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Due to the mobility and limited resources of mobile devices used by group members, secure groups in a MANET may be required to be set up and maintained dynamically, and applications requiring SGC may request to change the secure groups according to network and application status. In this paper, a secure group model is presented to describe common characteristics of secure groups based on hierarchical authentication relations among the members in each secure group. Based on this model, a middleware service for SGC is developed to set up and maintain secure groups automatically and support development and runtime of applications using SGC in MANETs. This middleware service is implemented in a context-sensitive middleware RCSM.
KW - Context-sensitive middleware
KW - Middleware service
KW - Mobile ad hoc network
KW - Secure group communication
KW - Secure group management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jss.2004.06.022
DO - 10.1016/j.jss.2004.06.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10044290936
SN - 0164-1212
VL - 76
SP - 29
EP - 43
JO - Journal of Systems and Software
JF - Journal of Systems and Software
IS - 1
ER -