Crowds: anonymity for Web transactions
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
Communications of the ACM
Protecting Respondents' Identities in Microdata Release
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Introducing MorphMix: peer-to-peer based anonymous Internet usage with collusion detection
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
UMAC: Fast and Secure Message Authentication
CRYPTO '99 Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Protocols Using Anonymous Connections: Mobile Applications
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Security Protocols
MIXes in Mobile Communication Systems: Location Management with Privacy
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Information Hiding
A Mobility Framework for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
MDM '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management
ANODR: anonymous on demand routing with untraceable routes for mobile ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Modeling mobility for vehicular ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
The predecessor attack: An analysis of a threat to anonymous communications systems
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Tor: the second-generation onion router
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
ICDCS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Privacy Preservation over Untrusted Mobile Networks
Privacy in Location-Based Applications
MASK: anonymous on-demand routing in mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The dangers of composing anonymous channels
IH'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information Hiding
Providing Users’ Anonymity in Mobile Hybrid Networks
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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We present a novel hybrid communication protocol that guarantees mobile users' k-anonymity against a wide-range of adversaries by exploiting the capability of handheld devices to connect to both WiFi and cellular networks. Unlike existing anonymity schemes, we consider all parties that can intercept communications between the mobile user and a server as potential privacy threats. We formally quantify the privacy exposure and the protection of our system in the presence of malicious neighboring peers, global WiFi eavesdroppers, and omniscient mobile network operators. We show how our system provides an automatic incentive for users to collaborate, since by forwarding packets for other peers users gain anonymity for their own traffic.