Research Article

[Retracted] HGKM: An Efficient Hybrid Group Key Management for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles MBN in Wireless Network Environment

Table 7

The computation cost of the leave action for the TKC.

Group key management approachesComputation cost

HGKMSituation(i) one member departs from one member element
Situation(ii) one leader contestant leaves that group
Situation(iii) one leader leaves that group also one leadership contestant is available to replace the current leader
Situation(iv) one leader leaves that group, and no leadership contestant is available to replace the current leader.
LKH
OFTH

: the tallest of that operation unit present in HGKM. h: highest of key tree group in OFT and LKH. : the number of leader units in HGKM.