Using Insider Swapping of Time Intervals to Perform Highly Invisible Network Flow Watermarking
Joint Authors
Liu, Guangjie
Zhai, Jiangtao
Dai, Yuewei
Liu, Weiwei
Xia, Yang
Ji, Xiaopeng
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-16, 16 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-11-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Network flow watermarking (NFW) is an emerging flow correlation technique to deanonymize an anonymous communication system or detect stepping stones, in which a watermark is encoded into a network flow by manipulating some flow characteristics, predominantly by altering timing information.
Although interval-based NFWs that employ time intervals as carrier have proven to be capable of resisting moderate network interference, they are vulnerable to some statistic-based attacks, which may expose the very existence of watermark and enable attackers to damage or remove watermark from the observed flow.
In this study, using insider swapping of time intervals and an adaptive centroid quantization framework, we design a highly invisible NFW scheme, which is undetectable by multi-flow attacks (MFA), Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test, and spread spectrum flow watermark (SSFW) detection.
Experimental results using real traffic and public dataset show that the proposed NFW scheme can outperform three typical NFW schemes on invisibility while maintaining a strong interference-resistance capability of network jitter, packet loss, and dummy packet insertion.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Liu, Weiwei& Liu, Guangjie& Xia, Yang& Ji, Xiaopeng& Zhai, Jiangtao& Dai, Yuewei. 2018. Using Insider Swapping of Time Intervals to Perform Highly Invisible Network Flow Watermarking. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214191
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Liu, Weiwei…[et al.]. Using Insider Swapping of Time Intervals to Perform Highly Invisible Network Flow Watermarking. Security and Communication Networks No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214191
American Medical Association (AMA)
Liu, Weiwei& Liu, Guangjie& Xia, Yang& Ji, Xiaopeng& Zhai, Jiangtao& Dai, Yuewei. Using Insider Swapping of Time Intervals to Perform Highly Invisible Network Flow Watermarking. Security and Communication Networks. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214191
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214191