Cheikhrouhou, OmarKoubâa, AnisDini, GianlucaAlzaid, HaniAbid, Mohamed2014-02-042014-02-0420121570-8705http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3691Secure group communication is a paradigm that primarily designates one-to-many communication security. The proposed works relevant to secure group communication have predominantly considered the whole network as being a single group managed by a central powerful node capable of supporting heavy communication, computation and storage cost. However, a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) may contain several groups, and each one is maintained by a sensor node (the group controller) with constrained resources. Moreover, the previously proposed schemes require a multicast routing support to deliver the rekeying messages. Nevertheless, multicast routing can incur heavy storage and communication overheads in the case of a wireless sensor network. Due to these two major limitations, we have reckoned it necessary to propose a new secure group communication with a lightweight rekeying process. Our proposal overcomes the two limitations mentioned above, and can be applied to a homogeneous WSN with resource-constrained nodes with no need for a multicast routing support. Actually, the analysis and simulation results have clearly demonstrated that our scheme outperforms the previous well-known solutions.engSecure Group Communication (SGC)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)Group Key ManagementSimulationAnalysisjournal article10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.03.019