Research Article

Secure Collaborative Key Management for Dynamic Groups in Mobile Networks

Figure 2

Group merging process: (a) when groups and are merged, R’s master sends the locker list of to C’s master and (b) after groups are merged, C’s master becomes the master for merged group and broadcasts the key-locks for new group key to all of the members.
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