On Measuring Anonymity For Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

We propose an evidence theory based anonymity measuring approach for wireless mobile ad-hoc networks. In our approach, an evidence is a measure of the number of detected packets within a given time period. Based on the collected evidence, we can set up basic probability assignments for all packet delivery paths and use evidence theory to quantify the anonymity in the number of bits. Our approach is more general and practical comparing to the traditional Shannon information theory based solutions where the probability assignments are predefined