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Multicast Steganography Using Routing Protocols

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Multimedia Communications, Services and Security (MCSS 2017)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 785))

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The strengthening of security solutions for computer networks increases the interests in new methods for the transfer of hidden information. In this paper, we considered the use of routing protocols for transmission of steganographic messages. We evaluated such approach using proactive and reactive routing protocols by analyzing the amount of sent data, the number of generated routing packets, the average size of routing packets, and the packet delivery ratio using the NS-3 simulator. Simulations included random network topologies with a various number of nodes and mobility settings. The obtained results showed that reactive routing protocols exchange a large amount of routing packets which can be suitable for steganographic purposes due to network flooding mechanism.

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The research received a financial support from the SGS grant No. SP2017/174, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, 70800, Ostrava-poruba, Czech Republic

    Miralem Mehic & Miroslav Voznak

  2. Department DIMES, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci 41/C, 870 36, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Peppino Fazio

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Mehic, M., Voznak, M., Fazio, P. (2017). Multicast Steganography Using Routing Protocols. In: Dziech, A., Czyżewski, A. (eds) Multimedia Communications, Services and Security. MCSS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69911-0_10

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