%0 Journal Article %A Yacine Challal and Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah and Hamida Seba %D 2007 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 6, 2007 %T A Taxonomy of Group Key Management Protocols: Issues and Solutions %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9649 %V 6 %X Group key management is an important functional building block for any secure multicast architecture. Thereby, it has been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper we present relevant group key management protocols. Then, we compare them against some pertinent performance criteria. %P 1713 - 1725