With rapid increase of mobile computing and wireless network linkage, the information
exchange between connected systems and within groups increases heavily. Exchanging confidential in-
formation within groups via unsecured communication channels is a high security threat. In order to
prevent third parties from accessing this data, it is essential to encrypt it. For this purpose, the group
participants need a common group key to enable encrypted broadcast messages. But efficient key man-
agement of secured group communication is a challenging task, if participants rely on low performance
hardware and small bandwidth. For coordination and distribution, we present the modular group key
management procedure CAKE that is centrally organized and meets strict security requirements. The
lightweight G-IKEv2 protocol in combination with the key exchange concept of CAKE leads to an effi-
ciently integrated solution. The hybrid approach combines the advantages of the existing protocols with
the objective to reduce the computation and communication effort. It is shown that the procedure is more
suitable for changing MANET groups than the existing ones. Moreover, the exchanged group key can be
used for any services which provides a wide range of applications.