A network pump

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 329-338

  Kang, Myong H ^a   Moskowitz, Ira S ^a   Lee, Daniel C ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covert channel; Flow control; Gateway; Information theory; Router; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000446356     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.502225     Document Type: Article

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