ILACF: An Incentive-Based Low-Latency Anonymous Communication Framework

Abstract

With the more emphasis paid on network security and privacy, the research on anonymous communication system has developed quickly. In the past, researchers mainly focused on how to improve the anonymity, but few focused on how to encourage users to contribute for whole system. This paper presents an incentive mechanism and designs an Incentive-based Low-latency anonymous communication framework (ILACF). In this framework, firstly all nodes in anonymous communication system are divided into four types according to their contribution, and then router selection mechanism is presented. The traffic performance of ILACF is analyzed. The theoretic analysis and simulation experiment indicate that the incentive mechanism is very useful and ILACF can gain better communication performance than Tor and ALHACF.