Research Article

PF : Website Fingerprinting Attack Using Probabilistic Topic Model

Table 1

The notations used in this work.

NotationsDescriptions

a training sequence file
a test sequence file
a “topic”
a “word” in a sequence file
The vocabulary, i.e., the set of different “words”
The corpus, i.e., the set of training sequence files
The set of “topics”
The total number of different “words” in the corpus
The total number of “words” in the corpus
The total number of training sequence files
The total number of test sequence files
The total number of latent “topics”
The number of the “word” occurring in the training sequence file
The number of the “word” occurring in the test sequence file
Probability
Conditional probability
Joint probability