TY - GEN
T1 - Inferring military activity in hybrid networks through cache behavior
AU - Dehghan, Mostafa
AU - Goeckel, Dennis L.
AU - He, Ting
AU - Towsley, Don
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this work, we consider a tactical hybrid network where a military adhoc network utilizes a commercial cellular network as backbone for data traffic. It is assumed that all traffic goes through a cache at the cellular base station with Least-Recently Used (LRU) policy. We study the possibility of inferring the military traffic rate from cache hit/miss observations of a single adversary node. We show the possibility of such an inference by presenting algorithms for estimating the parameters of the hybrid network. First, we show that an adversary node can estimate the cache and workload parameters of a hybrid network by observing the hit/miss results of her queries. We then show that these estimates can be used to infer the military traffic rate.
AB - In this work, we consider a tactical hybrid network where a military adhoc network utilizes a commercial cellular network as backbone for data traffic. It is assumed that all traffic goes through a cache at the cellular base station with Least-Recently Used (LRU) policy. We study the possibility of inferring the military traffic rate from cache hit/miss observations of a single adversary node. We show the possibility of such an inference by presenting algorithms for estimating the parameters of the hybrid network. First, we show that an adversary node can estimate the cache and workload parameters of a hybrid network by observing the hit/miss results of her queries. We then show that these estimates can be used to infer the military traffic rate.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897716509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84897716509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2013.292
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2013.292
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897716509
SN - 9780769551241
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
SP - 1726
EP - 1731
BT - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2013
Y2 - 18 November 2013 through 20 November 2013
ER -