Analysis and detection of SPIM using message statistics

Proceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 246-249

  Maroof, Uzma ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Benign; Entropy; Information gain; Instant messaging; SPIM

Indexed keywords

BENIGN; CONTENT-BASED SEARCH; DATA SETS; DOS ATTACKS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INFORMATION GAIN; INSTANT MESSAGING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SPIM; UNWANTED TRAFFIC;

COMPUTER CRIME; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENTROPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MESSAGE PASSING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78650320533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICET.2010.5638480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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