Efficient Group Key Management for Internet of Things
Abstract: The Internet of Things has become the next big step of a general Internetevolution, and conveys the assurance of security as one of the biggest challenge.In particular, use cases and application scenarios that adopt groupcommunication schemes need to be properly secured, in order to protect themessage exchange among group members from a number of security attacks.A typical way to achieve secure group communication relies on the adoptionof a symmetric group key shared among all the group members. This in turnrequires to rely on a group key management scheme, which is responsible forrevoking and renewing the group key when nodes join or leave the group.Due to the resource-constrained nature of typical IoT devices, the adoptedgroup key management scheme should be ecient and highly scalable withthe group size.This thesis project has been conducted in collaboration with SICS SwedishICT, a research institute with focus on applied computer science. We haveimplemented an ecient group key management protocol initially proposedand designed by SICS, considering the Contiki operating system and resourceconstrainedIoT platforms. We have also experimentally evaluated the protocolin terms of storage overhead, communication overhead, energy consumptionand total required rekeying time.
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