Peer to peer networks for defense against internet worms

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1745-1752

  Shakkottai, Srinivas ^a,b   Srikant, R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid models; Internet worms; P2P networks; Patch dissemination

Indexed keywords

DATA DISSEMINATION; PATCH DISSEMINATION;

COMPUTER WORMS; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; SERVERS;

INTERNET;

EID: 36749049364     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2007.071212     Document Type: Article

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