A lightweight dynamic multicast authentication scheme

Author

Xuanxia Yao ; Xianwei Zhou ; Xiaojiang Du

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

600

Abstract

Multicast is a very common communication mode in wireless networks. A security mechanism for multicast is not only the measure to ensure secure communications but also the precondition for other security services. Based on the analysis of Nyberg´s fast one-way accumulator and its security, we discover that it has property of absorbency besides the one-way and quasi-communicative properties, which makes it very suitable for applications with variable accumulated items. In this paper, a lightweight dynamic multicast authentication algorithm for small-scale group-based applications is constructed by improving the original Nyberg´s fast one-way accumulator. In addition, the security of the algorithm is analyzed in detail and the performance is evaluated in four aspects.

Keywords

multicast communication; telecommunication security; Nyberg fast one-way accumulator; lightweight dynamic multicast authentication scheme; one-way properties; quasicommunicative properties; secure communications; security mechanism; small scale group; wireless networks; Authentication; Educational institutions; Heuristic algorithms; Mechanical factors; Public key; Receivers; absorbency; multicast authentication; one-way accumulator; quasi-commutative;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), 2014 9th International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHINACOM.2014.7054365

Filename

7054365