Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) use anonymous routing protocols that hide node
identities and/or routes from outside observers in order to provide anonymity protection …

The desire to preserve privacy in cyberspace drives research in the area of anonymous
networks. Any entity operating in cyberspace is susceptible to debilitating cyber attacks. As …

The services provided through peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture involve the transmission of
text, images, documents, and multimedia. Especially the distribution of multimedia content …

Social networking services (SNS), which provide the application with the most probably
highest growth rates in the Internet today, raise serious security concerns, especially with …

Due to the multiplicity of loci of control, a main issue distributed systems have to cope with
lies in the uncertainty on the system state created by the adversaries that are asynchrony …

Nowadays, a lot of e-Learning systems are widely deployed in educational schools. Typical
e-Learning systems are implemented as client-server model. In the client-server model, the …

This article addresses the consensus problem in asynchronous systems prone to process
crashes, where additionally the processes are anonymous (they cannot be distinguished …

This paper gives details of a formal analysis of the MUTE system for anonymous file-sharing.
We build pi-calculus models of a node that is innocent of sharing files, a node that is guilty of …

Abstract Although anonymizing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks often means extra cost in terms
of transfer efficiency, many systems try to mask the identities of their users for privacy …

The construction of a spanning tree is a fundamental task in distributed systems which
allows to resolve other tasks (ie, routing, mutual exclusion, network reset). In this paper, we …