“ Network - Aware Security for Group Communications ”

This book gives an introduction to group key management protocols in different network settings. It can be recommended to early researchers in the areas of group key management, secure multicast and secure communication in sensor networks. The book discusses various security issues in group communications in a network-aware approach. However, it fails to show how to rigorously analyze group key management protocols with respect to these identified security issues. The book has 10 chapters. The initial chapters give an overview of generic security issues related to group communications, whilst the later chapters concentrate on specific network/application settings like cellular networks, multimedia multicast and wireless sensor networks etc. Each chapter begins with identifying a research problem and giving an overview of how this is going to be addressed. The contents of each chapter are summarized at the end of the respective chapter.