Admissible length study in anonymous networking: A detection theoretic perspective

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1957-1969

  Mishra, Abhishek ^a   Venkitasubramaniam, Parv ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Chaum Mix; Traffic Analysis Admissible Length

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; ANONYMOUS NETWORKINGS; ANONYMOUS NETWORKS; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; INTERMEDIATE ROUTERS; NETWORK RESOURCE; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES;

PACKET NETWORKS;

MIXING;

EID: 84883349409     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130926     Document Type: Article

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