Affiliation:
1. Singapore Management University, Stamford Road, Singapore
2. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
3. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Abstract
The end-users communicating over a network path currently have no control over the path. For a better quality of service, the source node often opts for a superior (or premium) network path to send packets to the destination node. However, the current Internet architecture provides no assurance that the packets indeed follow the designated path. Network path validation schemes address this issue and enable each node present on a network path to validate whether each packet has followed the specific path so far. In this work, we introduce two notions of privacy—
path privacy
and
index privacy
—in the context of network path validation. We show that, in case a network path validation scheme does not satisfy these two properties, the scheme is vulnerable to certain practical attacks (that affect the privacy, reliability, neutrality and quality of service offered by the underlying network). To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work that addresses privacy issues related to network path validation. We design PrivNPV, a privacy-preserving network path validation protocol, that satisfies both path privacy and index privacy. We discuss several attacks related to network path validation and how PrivNPV defends against these attacks. Finally, we discuss the practicality of PrivNPV based on relevant parameters.
Funder
The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship while at Singapore Management University
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications
Cited by
10 articles.
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