Achieving Anonymous Communication in Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Cheng, Dapeng ; Han, Jinsong ; Li, Mo ; Yang, Baijian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Electron. Eng., Shandong Inst. of Bus. & Eng.

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

25-28 June 2006

Firstpage

1547

Lastpage

1551

Abstract

Privacy and anonymity have become an increasing requirement in today´s wireless networks. However, current mobile peer-to-peer architectures have not taken into account anonymity, especially the mutual anonymity between two nodes. In this paper, we propose a secure-information-dispersal-algorithm-based mutual anonymity protocol (SIDAM), for mobile P2P networks. SIDAM achieves mutual anonymity in mobile P2P networks. We simulate SIDAM in a prototyped test-bed and initiate comprehensive attacks on our protocol. The simulation results indicate that SIDAM provides high anonymity with a low cryptography processing overhead

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; telecommunication security; SIDAM; ad hoc network; mobile P2P network; mutual anonymity protocol; peer-peer network; secure-information-dispersal-algorithm; Ad hoc networks; Communication system security; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Industrial electronics; Information security; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; Tail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems Proceedings, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9584-0

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9585-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2006.284966

Filename

4064192