PhD Qualifying Examination


"A Survey on Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Computing"

Mr. Jinsong Han


Abstract:

Although anonymizing peer-to-peer (P2P) often means extra cost in terms of
transfer efficiency, many systems try to mask the identities of their
users for privacy consideration. By comparison and analysis of existing
approaches, we investigate the properties of P2P anonymity, and summarize
current attack models on these designs. We find most of these approaches
are path-based, which require peers pre-construct anonymous paths before
transmission, and thus suffer significant overhead and poor reliability.
We then discuss the open problems in this field and propose several future
research directions.


Date:     		Wednesday, 11 January 2006

Time:                   10:00a.m.-12:00noon

Venue:                  Room 4502
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Yunhao Liu (Supervisor)
			Dr. Cunsheng Ding (Chairperson)
			Dr. Mordecai Golin
			Prof. Lionel Ni


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