On Introducing Noise into the Bus-Contention Channel

  • Authors:
  • James W. Gray, III

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SP '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We explore two approaches to introducing noise intothe bus-contention channel: an existing approach calledfuzzy time, and a novel approach called probabilistic partitioning. We compare the two approaches in terms of the impact on covert channel capacity, the impact onperformance, the amount of random data needed, andtheir suitability for various applications. For probabilisticpartitioning, we obtain a precise tradeoff betweencovert channel capacity and performance.