A Taxonomy of Group Key Management Protocols: Issues and Solutions
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Group key management is an important functional building block for any secure multicast architecture. Thereby, it has been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper we present relevant group key management protocols. Then, we compare them against some pertinent performance criteria. Keywords—Multicast, Security, Group Key Management.
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