Anonymous networking with minimum latency in multihop networks

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 18-32

  Venkitasubramaniam, Parvathinathan ^a   Tong, Lang ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; INFORMATION THEORY; MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PHOTOELECTRIC RELAYS; SCHEDULING; TRANSMISSIONS;

IN PACKET; INFORMATION-THEORETIC MEASURES; MULTI-HOP NETWORKS; NETWORK LATENCIES; PACKET SCHEDULING; RANDOM SELECTION; RANDOMIZED SELECTION; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 50249168829     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2008.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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