A scalable anonymous protocol for heterogeneous wireless ad hoc networks
Mimoza Durrësi, Vamsi Paruchuri, Arjan Durresi, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa · Journal of Embedded Computing · 2009
Ensuring anonymity in wireless and hoc networks is a major security goal. Using traffic analysis, the attacker can compromise the network functionality by correlating data flow patterns to event locations/active areas. In this paper we present a novel Scalable Anonymous Protocol that hides the location of nodes and obscure the correlation between event zones and data flow from snooping adversaries. We quantify the anonymity strength of our protocol by introducing a new anonymity metric: Degree of Exposure Index. Our protocol is designed to offer flexible tradeoffs between degree of anonymity and communication-delay overhead.