On an information theoretic approach to model anonymous MANET communications

  • Authors:

  • Dijiang Huang

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science and Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Measuring communication anonymity (e.g., unlink-ability) of anonymous communication systems is a critical, however, unsolved problem. To address this issue, we present an information theoretic model for unlinkability measure for MANETs. Our approach is based on evidence theory, where the basic measuring component is a "set". We present a traffic slicing method to model mobility followed by theoretical models to evaluate sender and receiver unlinkability, path unlinkability and system unlinkability.