Improving network security by multipath traffic dispersion

Author

Yang, Jie ; Papavassiliou, Symeon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

34

Abstract

In this paper we argue that multipath traffic dispersion techniques can be utilized complementary to the existing security provision mechanisms to improve network security so that the possibility of unauthorized information leakage induced by attacks along the information path is minimized. Initially, we provide an analytical framework to study and evaluate the security performance provided by multipath traffic dispersion. Based on the results achieved, we propose a heuristic multipath traffic dispersion scheme to minimize the impact of network attacks.

Keywords

Internet; multipath channels; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; telecommunication traffic; heuristic scheme; multipath traffic dispersion; network attacks; network security; security performance; unauthorized information leakage; Computer networks; Computer security; Cryptography; Data security; Information security; Internet; Local area networks; Protection; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7225-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985760

Filename

985760