Accuracy and privacy on network traffic monitoring

EDIC candidacy exam
Exam president: Prof. Matthias Grossglauser
Thesis advisor: Prof. Katerina Argyraki
Thesis coadvisor:  Prof. Bryan Ford
Co-examiner: Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Abstract

Background papers
Trajectory sampling for direct traffic observation, by Grossglauser M., Duffield N.G., IEEE/ACM Transactions on Netw., Volume: 9 Issue: 3.
The traffic analysis of continuous-time mixes, by Danezis G., In: Martin D., Serjantov A. (eds) Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PET 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Calibrating noise to sensitivity in private data analysis, by Dwork C., et al. Published in: Proceeding TCC'06 Proceedings of the Third conference on Theory of Cryptography Pages 265-284.