The role of network trace anonymization under attack

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-11

  Burkhart, Rviartin ^a   Schatzmann, Dominik ^a   Trammell, Brian ^b   Boschi, Elisa ^b   Plattner, Bernhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anonymization; Injection attacks; Privacy

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DATA PRIVACY;

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; ANONYMIZATION; BACK-BONE NETWORK; EXTERNAL INFORMATIONS; NETWORK DATA ANONYMIZATION; TRAFFIC AGGREGATION; TRAFFIC PATTERN; UNIFIED APPROACH;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77958076098     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1672308.1672310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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