Error probability analysis of IP time to live covert channels

ISCIT 2007 - 2007 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 562-567

  Zander, Sebastian ^a   Branch, Philip ^a   Armitage, Grenville ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Covert channels; Network protocols; Security

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTICAL ERRORS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CHANNEL ERRORS; COVERT CHANNELS; COVERT COMMUNICATIONS; DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; ENCODING SCHEMES; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; ERROR PROBABILITIES; ERROR PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; INTERNET TRAFFIC; SIMULATION RESULTS; TIME-TO-LIVE (TTL);

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 46749096857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCIT.2007.4392082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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