STARS: A Statistical Traffic Pattern Discovery System for MANETs
2014
Many anonymity enhancing techniques have been proposed based on packet encryption to protect the communication anonymity of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, in this paper, we show that MANETs are still vulnerable under passive statistical traffic analysis attacks. To demonstrate how to discover the communication patterns without decrypting the captured packets, we present a novel statistical traffic pattern discovery system (STARS). STARS works passively to perform traffic analysis based on statistical characteristics of captured raw traffic. STARS is capable of discovering the sources, the destinations, and the end-to-end communication relations. Empirical studies demonstrate that STARS achieves good accuracy in disclosing the hidden traffic patterns.
Keywords:
- Mobile ad hoc network
- Distributed computing
- Optimized Link State Routing Protocol
- Computer science
- Traffic analysis
- Ad hoc wireless distribution service
- Encryption
- Wireless ad hoc network
- Vehicular ad hoc network
- Computer network
- Adaptive quality of service multi-hop routing
- Airfield traffic pattern
- Mobile computing
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