A design of overlay anonymous multicast protocol
Li Xiao, Xiaomei Liu, Wenjun Gu, Xuan Dong, Yunhao Liu · 2006
Multicast services are demanded by a variety of appli-cations. Many applications require anonymity during their communication. However, there has been very little work on anonymous multicasting and such services are not available yet. Since there are fundamental differences be-tween multicast and unicast, the solutions proposed for anonymity in unicast communications cannot be directly applied to multicast applications. In this paper we define the anonymous multicast system, and propose a mutual anonymous multicast (MAM) protocol including the design of a unicast mutual anonymity protocol and construction and optimization of an anonymous multicast tree. MAM is self organizing and completely distributed. We define the attack model in an anonymous multicast system and ana-lyze the anonymity degree. We also evaluate the perform-ance of MAM by simulations. 1.