Modeling epidemic spreading in mobile environments

WiSe - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Workshop on Wireless Security

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 77-86

  Mickens, James W ^a   Noble, Brian D ^a  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer viruses; Mobile networks; Proximity attacks

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL POPULATION; MOBILE NETWORKS; PROXIMITY ATTACKS; VIRUS PROPAGATION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748991180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1080793.1080806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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