Title
Evading cellular data monitoring with human movement networks
Abstract
Cellular networks are centrally administered, enabling service providers and their governments to conduct system-wide monitoring and censorship of mobile communication. This paper presents HUMANETS, a fully decentralized, smartphone-to-smartphone (and hence human-to-human) message passing scheme that permits unmonitored message communication even when all cellular traffic is inspected. HUMANET message routing protocols exploit human mobility patterns to significantly increase communication efficiency while limiting the exposure of messages to mobile service providers. Initial results from tracedriven simulation show that 85% of messages reach their intended destinations while using orders of magnitude less network capacity than naïve epidemic flooding techniques.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
HotSec
unmonitored message communication,HUMANET message,enabling service provider,mobile communication,human movement network,cellular data,human mobility pattern,epidemic flooding technique,cellular traffic,communication efficiency,mobile service provider,cellular network
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Cellular traffic,Data monitoring,Mobile service,Service provider,Exploit,Cellular network,Message passing,Mobile telephony
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam J. Aviv144335.85
Micah Sherr262544.49
matt blaze33189381.70
Jonathan M. Smith41689238.40