On flow marking attacks in wireless anonymous communication networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 493-503

  Fu, Xinwen ^a   Zhu, Ye ^a   Graham, Bryan ^a   Bettati, Riccardo ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

FEATURE FREQUENCIES; FILTER-BASED COUNTERMEASURES; FLOW MARKING ATTACKS; TRAFFIC FLOWS; FILTER-BASED COUNTERMEASURE; FLOW-BASED WIRELESS MIX NETWORK; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TRAFFIC FLOW;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944485356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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