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Information Theory of Covert Timing Channels
Aaron B. Wagner and Venkat Anantharam

Citation
Aaron B. Wagner and Venkat Anantharam. "Information Theory of Covert Timing Channels". Unpublished article, October, 2005; Document based on talks presented at the 2005 NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Yerevan, Armenia, October 2005.

Abstract
We review our recent work on the reliability function of the timing channel associated to the first in first out exponential-server queue. This result is of interest in understanding the limits to communication over covert timing channels arising in communication networks.

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    ><i>Information Theory of Covert Timing
    Channels</i></a>, Unpublished article,  October,
    2005; 
     Document based on talks presented at the
    2005
    NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security
    and Intrusion
    Detection, Yerevan, Armenia, 
    October 2005.
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    Aaron B. Wagner and Venkat Anantharam. "Information
    Theory of Covert Timing Channels". Unpublished article,
     October, 2005; 
     Document based on talks presented at the
    2005 NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security
    and Intrusion
    Detection, Yerevan, Armenia, 
    October 2005.
  • BibTeX
    @unpublished{WagnerAnantharam05_InformationTheoryOfCovertTimingChannels,
        author = {Aaron B. Wagner and Venkat Anantharam},
        title = {Information Theory of Covert Timing Channels},
        month = {October},
        year = {2005},
        note = {
     Document based on talks presented at the
    2005
                  NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security
    and
                  Intrusion Detection, Yerevan, Armenia, 
    October
                  2005.},
        abstract = { We review our recent work on the reliability
                  function of the timing channel associated to the
                  first in first out exponential-server queue. This
                  result is of interest in understanding the limits
                  to communication over covert timing channels
                  arising in communication networks.},
        URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/56.html}
    }
    

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