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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 Unpublished article, October, 2005; Document based on talks presented at the 2005 NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Yerevan, Armenia, October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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  Aaron B. Wagner and Venkat Anantharam. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/56.html"
  ><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, Unpublished article,  October,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.

• Plain text

  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 Unpublished article,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  @unpublished{WagnerAnantharam05_InformationTheoryOfCovertTimingChannels,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}
  }
  

Posted by Venkatachalam Anantharam on 13 Apr 2006.
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