Neighborhood Failures in Random Topology Covert Communication Networks Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • A covert communications network is a connected, overlay, peer-to-peer network being used to support communications within a group in which the survival of the group depends on (a) confidentiality and anonymity for communications, (b) concealment of participation in the network to both other members of the group and external eavesdroppers, and (c) resilience against disconnec-tion. These requirements are much more stringent than for typical privacy and anonymity systems. In order to protect the network from subversion of individual nodes, neighbors of failed nodes have to be isolated from the network as well. Thus, all failures have to treated as neighborhood failures. Network membership is protected through topology management in order to limit each participant's knowledge of the network addresses (IP address, email address, etc.) of other participants. In this paper, we propose a measure for determining the suitability of random topologies for use in a covert communication network, and we use this measure to analyze the suitability of Erdnyi Random Graphs for use in a covert communication network. 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.

published proceedings

  • 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT-2014), THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SEIT-2014)

author list (cited authors)

  • Nix, T., & Bettati, R.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Nix, Timothy||Bettati, Riccardo

editor list (cited editors)

  • Shakshuki, E. M., & Yasar, A.

publication date

  • January 2014