A Key Management Scheme for Hierarchical Access Control in Group Communication

10.6633/IJNS.200811.7(3).03

Qiong Zhang；Yu-Ke Wang；Jason P. Jue

Group communication ； hierarchical access control ； key management ； logical key graph

International Journal of Network Security

7卷3期（2008 / 11 / 01）

323 - 334

英文

In group communication, users often have different access rights to multiple data streams. Based on the access relation of users and data streams, users can form partially ordered relations, and data streams can form partially ordered relations. In this paper, we propose a key management scheme for hierarchical access control, which considers both partially ordered user relations and partially ordered data stream relations. We also propose an algorithm for constructing a logical key graph, which is suitable even when users and data streams have complex relations. Simulation results show that our scheme can significantly improve the efficiency of key management.