Modeling human behavior for defense against flash-crowd attacks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Oikonomou, Georgios ^a   Mirkovic, Jelena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BOTNETS; DDOS ATTACK; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR MODELING; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; HUMAN USERS; LOW RATES; SERVICE REQUESTS; TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITY; VISUAL CUES; WEB TRAFFIC;

PROBABILITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70449513306     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5199191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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