Maximum damage malware attack in mobile wireless networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Khouzani, M H R ^a,b   Sarkar, Saswati ^a   Altman, Eitan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION PROBLEMS; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DEFENSE STRATEGY; EPIDEMIC MODELS; MALWARE ATTACKS; MALWARES; MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; OPTIMUM DECISION; PONTRYAGIN MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PROPAGATION RATE; SCANNING RATE; SECURITY RISKS; SECURITY THREATS; TRANSMISSION RANGES; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

COMPUTER WORMS; COST REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77953320145     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5462150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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