An analysis of anonymity side effects in the internet of services

Start Page
51
End Page
58
Article Number
6529236
Citation
1st International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2013)
Contribution to Conference
1st International Conference on Networked Systems, NetSys 2013  
Publisher DOI
10.1109/NetSys.2013.15
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84881127449
ISBN of container
978-076954950-7
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.
Subjects
Anonymity
Internet of services
Quality of service
Security
Web services