A new worm exploiting IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 dual-stack networks: Experiment, modeling, simulation, and defense

IEEE Network

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 22-29

  Liu, Ting ^a   Guan, Xiaohong ^a   Zheng, Qinghua ^a   Qu, Yu ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Data mining; Grippers; Internet; Layout; Network topology; Protocols

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS SPACE; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; BIOLOGICAL VIRUS; DEFENSE STRATEGY; DISCRETE-TIME; IN-NETWORK; IPV6 PROTOCOL; LAYOUT; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NETWORK WORMS; PATCH MODELS; PROTOCOLS; WORM PROPAGATION;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRIPPERS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 70350043927     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2009.5274918     Document Type: Article

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