SAS: A Scalar Anonymous Communication System

Anonymity technologies have gained more and more attention for communication privacy. In general, users obtain anonymity at a certain cost in an anonymous communication system, which uses rerouting to increase the system’s robustness. However, a long rerouting path incurs large overhead and decreases the quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we propose the Scalar Anonymity System (SAS) in order to provide a tradeoff between anonymity and cost for different users with different requirements. In SAS, by selecting the level of anonymity, a user obtains the corresponding anonymity and QoS and also sustains the corresponding load of traffic rerouting for other users. Our theoretical analysis and simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of SAS.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICCNMC
• Authors: Hongyun Xu, Xinwen Fu, Ye Zhu, Riccardo Bettati, Jianer Chen, Wei Zhao
• Keywords: Anonymity, Anonymity Technologies, Communications, ICCNMC 2005, Users Obtain Anonymity