Blind detection of spread spectrum flow watermarks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2195-2203

  Jia, Weijia ^a   Tso, Fung Po ^a   Ling, Zhen ^b   Fu, Xinwen ^c   Xuan, Dong ^d   Yu, Wei ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; ANONYMOUS NETWORKS; BLIND DETECTION; DETECTION SCHEME; DIRECT SEQUENCE; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HIGH DETECTION RATE; LOW COMPLEXITY; MEAN-SQUARE; PN CODE; PSEUDO-NOISE CODES; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SPREAD SPECTRA; TARGET FLOW; TRAFFIC RATE; WATERMARK DETECTION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME SERIES; WATERMARKING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 70349666876     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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