Low-cost and reliable mutual anonymity protocols in peer-to-peer networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 829-840

  Xiao, Li ^a   Xu, Zhichen ^b   Zhang, Xiaodong ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication protocols; Internet systems; Mutual anonymity; Overlay networks; Peer to peer (P2P) systems

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; INTERNET; SECURITY OF DATA; SERVERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); WEB BROWSERS;

MUTUAL ANONYMITY PROTOCOLS; OVERLAY NETWORKS; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0142103246     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2003.1233706     Document Type: Article

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