On the performance of group key management protocols in MANETs

Mohamed Salah Bouassida (1) , Mohamed Bouali (2)

1 Heudiasyc - Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes [Compiègne]
2 MADYNES - Management of dynamic networks and services

The establishment of Group Key Management Protocols (GKMPs) is the most suitable solution to provide secure multicast communication within ad hoc networks. However, these protocols have to take into account the characteristics of a such environment, with mobility of nodes, wireless links and low capacities. The evaluation of these protocols becomes thus mandatory to guarantee their adequacy and their applicability within MANETs. In this paper, we present an evaluation method for group key management protocols within ad hoc networks based on NS2, illustrated by the evaluation and the comparison of four main existing GKMPs: GKMPAN, DMGSA, BALADE and Hi-GDH, which belong to different group key management protocols approaches.

Mots clés: Group Key Management; Multicast; Ad Hoc; Simulations

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

Mohamed Salah Bouassida, Mohamed Bouali. On the performance of group key management protocols in MANETs. Joint Conference on Security in Network Architectures and Information Systems (SAR-SSI‘07), Jun 2007, Annecy, France. pp.275-286. ⟨hal-00447628⟩