DISTRIBUTED PATH RESTORATION ALGORITHM FOR ANONYMITY IN P2P FILE SHARING SYSTEMS

Pilar Manzanares-Lopez, Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea, Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse, Joan Garcia-Haro

2007

Abstract

In this paper, a new mechanism to achieve anonymity in peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems is proposed. As usual, the anonymity is obtained by means of connecting the source and destination peers through a set of intermediate nodes, creating a multiple-hop path. The main paper contribution is a distributed algorithm able to guarantee the anonymity even when a node in a path fails (voluntarily or not). The algorithm takes into account the inherent costs associated with multiple-hop communications and tries to reach a well-balanced solution between the anonymity degree and its associated costs. Some parameters are obtained analytically but the main network performances are evaluated by simulation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Manzanares-Lopez P., Pedro Muñoz-Gea J., Malgosa-Sanahuja J., Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse J. and Garcia-Haro J. (2007). DISTRIBUTED PATH RESTORATION ALGORITHM FOR ANONYMITY IN P2P FILE SHARING SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-05-0, pages 88-95. DOI: 10.5220/0001338600880095

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Pilar Manzanares-Lopez and Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea and Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja and Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse and Joan Garcia-Haro},
title={DISTRIBUTED PATH RESTORATION ALGORITHM FOR ANONYMITY IN P2P FILE SHARING SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={88-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001338600880095},
isbn={978-989-8111-05-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - DISTRIBUTED PATH RESTORATION ALGORITHM FOR ANONYMITY IN P2P FILE SHARING SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-05-0
AU - Manzanares-Lopez P.
AU - Pedro Muñoz-Gea J.
AU - Malgosa-Sanahuja J.
AU - Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse J.
AU - Garcia-Haro J.
PY - 2007
SP - 88
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0001338600880095