METHOD FOR CALCULATION MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT HIDDEN CHANNELS IN SYSTEMS OF STEGANOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS

Abstract

An analysis of the performance indicators multiservice telecommunication networks using the sixth technological order based on the NGN (Next Generation Network) architectural concept and future FN (Future Networks) networks was carried out to build high-performance steganographic systems with increased covert channels through-put, ensuring the achievement of a certain level information security. Comprehensive criteria for the efficiency the functioning steganographic systems are considered and the channel capacity of the steganosystem as a communication system with packet switching is selected. On the basis of the study, a new approach to constructing a method for evaluating complex indicators of the quality of steganographic communication during embedding and extracting hidden data is proposed. The quality of steganographic communication refers to the properties steganocommunication to ensure the efficiency of the system, both timely and reliable transmission of messages. On the basis of the proposed approach, the effectiveness steganographic systems in the construction of covert channels for the transmission secret data transmitted over communication channels was studied. Taking into account the new entropy approach, a method for calculating the indicators of the latent throughput steganographic systems in packet- switched communication networks has been created. As a result of the study calculation method, important analytical expressions were obtained for evaluating complex indicators throughput steganographic systems, such as the throughput of covert channels, the maximum possible value of the performance of a binary source packets, the average packet transmission time with the proposed coding scheme, and the residual throughput of the communication channel. Based on the results obtained, covert channel performance in steganographic systems was simulated using the Communications Toolbox package, an extension of the standard Matlab environment designed for calculating and modeling communication systems. The table contains indicators of the residual throughput of the system and the parameters of covert channel, taking into account the lengths of the headers of the network and channel levels of the open systems interaction models. With the considered method counteraction, a graphical dependence of the maximum value residual system throughput on the covert channel parameter is plotted. On the basis of the analysis, actual problems are identified, recommendations are developed to improve the efficiency of the use steganographic systems architectures for multiservice telecommunication networks.