17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06)
Tokens for Anonymous Communications in the Internet
Krakow, Poland
September 04-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2641-1
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
With the growth and acceptance of the Internet, there has been increased interest in maintaining anonymity in the network. Using traffic analysis, it is possible to infer who is talking to whom over a public network. This work develops a novel approach to hide the senders and the receivers of messages. Routes are chosen and frames traverse these routes. Each frame consists of a token and a node can send a message through a frame only when the corresponding token is free. The best thing about our protocol is that it poses no bandwidth overhead when there is at least some traffic while posing minimal bandwidth overhead when there is no traffic at all.
Citation:
Arjan Durresi, Vamsi Paruchuri, Leonard Barolli, Raj Jain, Makoto Takizawa, "Tokens for Anonymous Communications in the Internet," dexa, pp.83-90, 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06), 2006