Secure Group Communications over Data Networks

This book provides a concise survey of principles and state-of-the-arttechniques for secure group communications (SGC) over data networks.It offers an overview of secure algorithms and protocols for groupcommunication linking areas such as applied cryptography and computernetworking. Also included is a coverage of challenges in deployingsecure group communication-based applications over wireless networks.These challenges include the limited computational power of mobiledevices, susceptibility of wireless networks to intrusion andunauthorized access and mobility of nodes in a wireless ad-hoc networkenvironment.Secure Group Communications over Data Networks provides a wealth ofinformation for network architects, IT Professionals, computerscientists, and advanced students of computer science and computerengineering in the fields of networking, computer security andsoftware applications development.