On Traffic Performance Measures for Anonymous P2P Networks

Publication Type  Conference Proceedings
Year of Publication  2008
Authors  Margasinski, I.; Pioro, M.
Conference Name  The Fifth Polish-German Teletraffic Symposium (PGTS'08)
Pagination  129-138
Conference Start Date  06/10/2008
Publisher  Logos Verlag Berlin
Conference Location  Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Editor  A. Feldmann, et al.
ISBN Number  978-3-8325-2047-2
Key Words  Communication system traffic; traffic modeling; anonymous peer-to-peer networks
Abstract  The modeling of anonymous systems is mostly aimed at the evaluation of the level of provided anonymity. However, the utility of anonymity solutions depends not only on their security, but also on necessary traffic overheads. In this paper, we have proposed an empirical, traffic performance model for anonymous P2P networks. We based our research on a well known information entropy measurement model for an estimate of secure configuration of anonymous forwarding path lengths. Then, we proposed a simulation-based methodology for an evaluation of latency and dynamics of the selected configurations. As an example we used the classical system called CROWDS. We evaluate traffic performance of CROWDS and show that the empirical analysis of the system has been analogous to results obtained analytically for representative boundary conditions.
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