Modeling peer-to-peer botnets

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 307-316

  Van Ruitenbeek, Elizabeth ^a   Sanders, William H ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BOTNETS; CENTRALIZED CONTROLS; COMPUTING POWERS; IRC CHANNELS; MALWARE; PEER TO PEERS; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS; PREVENTION MEASURES; SIMULATION RESULTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 56649088308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2008.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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