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An Analysis of Anonymity Side Effects in the Internet of Services
| Key: | LML+13 |
| Author: | Ulrich Lampe, André Miede, Tim Lusa, Stefan Schulte, Ralf Steinmetz, Schahram Dustdar |
| Date: | March 2013 |
| Kind: | In proceedings - use for conference & workshop papers |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Address: | Los Alamitos, CA, United States |
| Book title: | Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2013) |
| Editor: | Kurt Rothermel, Andreas Kirstädter, Joachim Charzinski |
| Pages: | 51-58 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7695-4950-7 |
| Language: | english |
| Keywords: | Internet of Services; Web Services; Security; Anonymity; Quality of Service |
| Number of characters: | 43040 |
| Research Area(s): | IT Architectures |
| Abstract: | The Internet of Services will facilitate cross-organizational collaboration by allowing companies to utilize services from external providers. Even though standard security mechanisms such as message encryption may be in place, attackers could create detailed profiles of service consumers, providers, and marketplaces by monitoring communication endpoints. This threatens the security objective of relationship anonymity and potentially permits sensitive information about the underlying business processes or relationships between service consumers and providers to be revealed. While state-of-the-art countermeasures in the form of anonymity systems allow this problem to be addressed, they may have undesired side effects on the Quality of Service. This work provides a detailed empirical analysis of these side effects, based on an extensive measurement of the response time, availability, and throughput of representative, globally distributed services. Our experimental results are available to the interested public within the comprehensive dataset WS-Anon. |
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