Defending mobile phones from proximity malware

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1503-1511

  Zyba, Gjergji ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a   Liljenstam, Michael ^b   Méhes, András ^b   Johansson, Per ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED NETWORKS; ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; EPIDEMIC MODELS; GLOBAL DYNAMICS; MALWARE DETECTION; MALWARE PROPAGATION; MALWARES; MOBILITY MODEL; NETWORK DEFENSE; REAL-WORLD; UNIVERSITY CAMPUS;

BLUETOOTH; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 70349663942     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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