Peer to peer networks for defense against internet worms

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 200, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shakkottai, Srinivas ^a   Srikant, R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID MODELS; HUMAN MEDIATION; POTENTIAL HOSTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 34748891815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1190326.1190331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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