Measuring anonymity by profiling probability distributions

Proc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 366-374

  Bagai, Rajiv ^a   Jiang, Nan ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CCH Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity Metrics; Entropy; Probability Distributions

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY METRICS; SHANNON ENTROPY;

ENTROPY; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84868100937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2012.200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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