On the fundamentals of anonymity metrics

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 262, Issue , 2008, Pages 325-341

  Andersson, Christer ^a   Lundin, Reine ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENTROPY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ANONYMITY METRICS; ANONYMITY SETS; ANONYMOUS NETWORKS; ENTROPY FUNCTION; ENTROPY-BASED; HUFFMAN CODE; STATE OF THE ART;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 45949087897     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79026-8_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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