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Privacy of Community Pseudonyms in Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks

Freudiger, Julien
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Jadliwala, Murtuza
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Hubaux, Jean-Pierre  
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2013
Mobile Networks & Applications

Wireless networks offer novel means to enhance social interactions. In particular, peer-to-peer wireless communications enable direct and real-time interaction with nearby devices and communities and could extend current online social networks by providing complementary services including real-time friend and community detection and localized data sharing without infrastructure requirement. After years of research, the deployment of such peer-to-peer wireless networks is finally being considered. A fundamental primitive is the ability to discover geographic proximity of specific communities of people (e. g, friends or neighbors). To do so, mobile devices must exchange some community identifiers or messages. We investigate privacy threats introduced by such communications, in particular, adversarial community detection. We use the general concept of community pseudonyms to abstract anonymous community identification mechanisms and define two distinct notions of community privacy by using a challenge-response methodology. An extensive cost analysis and simulation results throw further light on the feasibility of these mechanisms in the upcoming generation of wireless peer-to-peer networks.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s11036-012-0406-y
Web of Science ID

WOS:000320390100011

Author(s)
Freudiger, Julien
Jadliwala, Murtuza
Hubaux, Jean-Pierre  
Niemi, Valtteri
Ginzboorg, Philip
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Mobile Networks & Applications
Volume

18

Issue

3

Start page

413

End page

428

Subjects

wireless peer-to-peer networks

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community pseudonyms

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community privacy

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REVIEWED

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LDS  
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October 1, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/95274
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