Automated detection and containment of worms and viruses into heterogeneous networks: A simple network immune system

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-58

  Palmieri, Francesco ^a   Fiore, Ugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic detection containment; Network immune systems; Viruses; Worms

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; REACTION RATES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; NATURAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PROPAGATION MODELS; REACTION STRATEGIES; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; WORMS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 80052622942     PISSN: 17411084     EISSN: 17411092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2007.013795     Document Type: Article

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