Secure multicasting is one of the major requirementsfor today’s communication arena.And for any kindof secure communication,a key-distribution schemeis the most sensible part.Being a highly promising,low-cost,and eme...Secure multicasting is one of the major requirementsfor today’s communication arena.And for any kindof secure communication,a key-distribution schemeis the most sensible part.Being a highly promising,low-cost,and emerging wireless technology,Bluetooth has key distribution supports for securemulticasting over its unit one-hop network,piconet.Bluetooth core specification[1]defines basic securityprotocols for key generation,encryption,andauthentication for intra-piconet security.However,not much attention has been paid so far on securingmulticasting over the Bluetooth Scatternet;nevertheless,multicasting is quite a sensible aspectof modern communication arena.Here in this paper,we extend the piconets key distribution scheme topresent a new key management scheme for securemulticasting over Bluetooth Scatternets.Our keymanagement scheme is compatible to the currentBluetooth architecture design as we rely onBluetooth’s existing security algorithms to proposeour resolution.展开更多
文摘Secure multicasting is one of the major requirementsfor today’s communication arena.And for any kindof secure communication,a key-distribution schemeis the most sensible part.Being a highly promising,low-cost,and emerging wireless technology,Bluetooth has key distribution supports for securemulticasting over its unit one-hop network,piconet.Bluetooth core specification[1]defines basic securityprotocols for key generation,encryption,andauthentication for intra-piconet security.However,not much attention has been paid so far on securingmulticasting over the Bluetooth Scatternet;nevertheless,multicasting is quite a sensible aspectof modern communication arena.Here in this paper,we extend the piconets key distribution scheme topresent a new key management scheme for securemulticasting over Bluetooth Scatternets.Our keymanagement scheme is compatible to the currentBluetooth architecture design as we rely onBluetooth’s existing security algorithms to proposeour resolution.
