In the last decade, there has been growing interest in Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks
(VANETs). Today car manufacturers have already started to equip vehicles with …

As modern vehicle and communication technologies advanced apace, people begin to
believe that the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) would be achievable in one decade …

Since a large scale Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is to be completely integrated into
Internet as a core part of Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber Physical System (CPS), it is …

Group communications in wireless networks has been facilitating many emerging
applications that require packet delivery from one or more sender (s) to multiple receivers …

Group-based systems, such as e-health systems, have been introduced since the last few
decades. E-health systems can be used anytime and anywhere for patient monitoring …

A secure multicast communication is important for applications such as pay-per-view and
secure videoconferencing. A key tree approach has been proposed by other authors to …

Group communication has been increasingly used as an efficient communication
mechanism for facilitating emerging applications that require packet delivery from one or …

To increase efficiency in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the multicast MANET is
proposed for a sender that sends packets to several receivers through a multicast session. In …

Although security have to be a key issue for systems carrying intelligence such as
surveillance system, it is still overshadowed by bandwidth utilization in multicast networks …

Many group communications require a security infrastructure that ensures multiple levels of
access control for group members. While most existing group key management schemes are …