Efficiency optimisation signature scheme for time-critical multicast data origin authentication. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Yichuan; Ma, Jianfeng; Lu, Xiang; Lu, Di; Zhang, Liumei
• Is Part Of: International journal of grid and utility computing. Volume 7:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 11
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: multicast data origin authentication -- game theory -- TV-HORS -- network security -- optimisation signature -- time-critical multicast data -- end-to-end delay -- pay TV -- power grid -- re-keying; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 004.605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-847X

Abstract

A great challenge of providing authentication to time-critical multicast data is the existence of low end-to-end delay in many applications such as pay-TV and the power grid scenarios. Consequently, to balance security and efficiency is still a difficult issue. The group of secret keys reused scheme of TV-HORS still cannot meet the requirements of low time delay of computation. To describe the relationship between security and efficiency for the time-critical multicast communication scenarios, we present a Game Model of Multicast Data Origin Authentication, in this paper. By analysing our model with Shannon's information and game theory, we propose an optimised re-keying scheme, contraposing the TV-HORS scheme. The advantage of breaking the security goal is negligible, even in the lowest risk-level parameter. The experiment results show that our scheme does significantly promote the efficiency of TV-HORS scheme and is the most efficient multicast data origin authentication signature scheme.