Traffic analysis against low-latency anonymity networks using available bandwidth estimation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6345 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 249-267

  Chakravarty, Sambuddho ^a   Stavrou, Angelos ^b   Keromytis, Angelos D ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; NETWORK SECURITY;

ANONYMITY NETWORKS; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION TOOLS; HIDDEN SERVICES; LOW LATENCY; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK LOCATION; REAL-WORLD; SINGLE ENDS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 78049387804     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15497-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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