A novel cloud-based worm propagation model

Journal of Computational Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1082-1091

  Zheng, Xufei ^a,b   Li, Tao ^a   Yang, Hua ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud security; MRDC; The map reduce program model; Worm propagation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE; CODE RED; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; DIVIDE AND CONQUER; FLASH WORMS; MAP-REDUCE; MRDC; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; ON-DEMAND SERVICES; OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; THE MAP REDUCE PROGRAM MODEL; WORM PROPAGATION;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER CRIME; ELASTICITY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTERNET;

EID: 79955741619     PISSN: 15539105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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