Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) is a self
configurable and wireless network for mobile devices. They
are capable of attracting choices for military operations. Due
to the ad hoc behavior it provides fast operation and doesn’t
provide any network infrastructure and so the
communications are anonymous. When the communication
is being taken place the identities will not be disclosed to each
other or to third parties. This type of anonymous
communication can be revealed by means of traffic analysis.
Traffic analysis is an advanced approach that exposes the
source and destination of the users in anonymous
communication. Presently it includes protocols used for
mitigating anonymous communication in MANETs. It
achieves good accuracy is disclosing the hidden traffic
patterns.
Published In : IJCAT Journal Volume 2, Issue 7
Date of Publication : July 2015
Pages : 259 - 268
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Publication Link :TPRS: An Effective Traffic Pattern Discovery
System in Manets
D. Ganesh : Department of Computer Science and Engg.
Swetha Institute of Technology & Sciences, Tirupati
P. Nageswara Rao : Associate Professor & HEAD of CSE.
Swetha Institute of Technology & Sciences, Tirupati
Anonymous Communication
Traffic Analysis
Ad-hoc Networks
TPDS is basically an attacking system, which only needs
to capture the raw traffic from the PHY/MAC layer
without looking into the contents of the intercepted
packets. TPDS constructs a sequence of point-to-point
traffic matrices to derive the end-to-end traffic matrix and
to use the heuristic data processing model to reveal the
hidden traffic patterns from the end-to-end matrix. The
study demonstrates the existing MANET system can
achieve very restricted anonymity under the attack of
TPDS.
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