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Revision with unchanged content. Over the last 30 years the study of group key agreement has stimulated much work. And as a result of the increased popularity of ad hoc networks, some approaches for the group key establishment in such networks are proposed. However, they are either only for static group or the memory, computation and communication costs are unacceptable for ad-hoc networks. In this thesis some protocol suites from the literature (2d-cube, 2d-octopus, Asokan-Ginzboorg, CLIQUES, STR and TGDH) shall be discussed. We have optimized STR and TGDH by reducing the memory, communication and computation costs. The optimized version are denoted by uSTR and uTGDH respectively. Based on the protocol suites uSTR and uTGDH we present a Tree-based group key agreement Framework for Ad-hoc Networks (TFAN). TFAN is especially suitable for ad-hoc networks with limited bandwidth and devices with limited memory and computation capability. To simulate the protocols, we have implemented TFAN, uSTR and uTGDH with J2ME CDC. The TFAN API will be described in this thesis.

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The author is research associate at Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at Ruhr-University of Bochum (RUB) in Germany. In 2005, he received his Diploma in Security in Information Technology from RUB. His current research interests include email security, web services security, and security in ad-hoc networks.

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