Adaptive Packet Padding Approach for Smart Home Networks: A Tradeoff Between Privacy and Performance

The presence of connected devices in homes introduces numerous threats to privacy via the analysis of the encrypted traffic these devices generate. Prior works have shown that traffic attributes such as packet size combined with machine learning techniques enable the inference of private information from Internet of Things users. One of the commonly used techniques to mitigate those privacy threats is traffic obfuscation, such as packet padding....