Encounter-based worms: Analysis and defense

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1414-1430

  Tanachaiwiwat, Sapon ^a   Helmy, Ahmed ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay tolerant networks; Encounter based worms; Worms

Indexed keywords

DELAY-TOLERANT NETWORKS; ENCOUNTER-BASED WORMS; INTERACTION FACTORS; MOBILE NETWORKS; MULTI GROUPS; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; NON-UNIFORM; STORE AND FORWARDS; TRACE-DRIVEN SIMULATIONS; WORM ATTACKS; WORM PROPAGATION; WORMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CRACK PROPAGATION; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 67349110460     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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