Towards a taxonomy of wired and wireless anonymous networks

  • Authors:
  • Douglas Kelly;Richard Raines;Rusty Baldwin;Barry Mullins;Michael Grimaila

  • Affiliations:
  • Air Force Institute of Technology, OH;Air Force Institute of Technology, OH;Air Force Institute of Technology, OH;Air Force Institute of Technology, OH;Air Force Institute of Technology, OH

  • Venue:
  • ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

With the aim to preserve privacy over a communications network, a plethora of anonymous protocols have been proposed along with many empirical investigations into specific adversary attacks over those networks. However, no known taxonomies exist that address anonymity in the diverse set of both wired and wireless anonymous communications networks. This paper proposes such a novel cubic taxonomy which explores the three key components of anonymity property, adversary capability, and network type. This taxonomy expands the definition of anonymity and aids in the advancement of state-of-the-art technological privacy-preserving mechanisms in anonymous networks against any adversary.