Characterizing a spam traffic

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 356-369

  Gomes, Luiz Henrique ^a   Cazita, Cristiano ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Almeida, Virgílio ^a   Meira Jr , Wagner ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

E mail Traffic; SPAM; Workload Characterization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DETECTION TECHNIQUES; E-MAIL TRAFFIC; SPAM TRAFFIC; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

SPAMMING;

EID: 14944360448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028788.1028837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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