A framework for anonymous routing in delay tolerant networks

Kazuya Sakai, Min Te Sun, Wei Shinn Ku, Jie Wu

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Abstract

Security and privacy issues are considered to be two of the most significant concerns to organizations and individuals using mobile applications. In this paper, we seek to address anonymous communications in delay tolerant networks (DTNs). While many different anonymous routing protocols have been proposed for ad hoc networks, to the best of our knowledge, only variants of onion-based routing have been tailored for DTNs. Since each type of anonymous routing protocol has its advantages and drawbacks, there is no single anonymous routing protocol for DTNs that can adapt to the different levels of security requirements. In this paper, we first design a set of anonymous routing protocols for DTNs, called anonymous Epidemic and zone-based anonymous routing, based on the original anonymous routing protocols for ad hoc networks. Then, we propose a framework of anonymous routing (FAR) for DTNs, which subsumes all the aforementioned protocols. By tuning its parameters, the proposed FAR is able to outperform onion-based, anonymous Epidemic, and zone-based routing. In addition, numerical analyses for the traceable rate and node anonymity models are built. Extensive simulations using randomly generated graphs as well as real traces are conducted to demonstrate that given appropriate parameter settings, our FAR outperforms all the existing anonymous routing protocols for DTNs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE 25th International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781509065011
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Nov 2017
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2017 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 10 Oct 201713 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
Volume2017-October
ISSN (Print)1092-1648

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2017
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period10/10/1713/10/17

Keywords

  • Anonymous routing
  • Delay tolerant networks
  • DTNs

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