On the robustness of the botnet topology formed by worm infection

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Qian ^a   Chen, Zesheng ^b   Chen, Chao ^b   Pissinou, Niki ^a  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

BOTNETS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PEER TO PEER; POTENTIAL USERS; POWER-LAW; RE-INFECTION; SIMPLE++;

BOTNET;

EID: 79551643155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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