Performance analysis of email systems under three types of attacks

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 485-499

  Wang, Yang ^a   Lin, Chuang ^b   Li, Quan Lin ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Email attack; Information leakage probability; Network security; Performance analysis; Queueing system

Indexed keywords

EMAIL ATTACK; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; INFORMATION LEAKAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; QUEUEING SYSTEM;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

EID: 77950859128     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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