TY - JFULL AU - Yacine Challal and Hamida Seba PY - 2008/11/ TI - Group Key Management Protocols: A Novel Taxonomy T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3619 EP - 3633 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11804 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 22, 2008 N2 - 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. ER -