Optimal quarantining of wireless malware through reception gain control

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-61

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Communication system security; Optimal control; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RANGE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SECURITY; DEFENSE STRATEGY; FUNCTION OF TIME; MALWARES; MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL FRAMEWORKS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PONTRYAGIN'S MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; RECEPTION GAIN; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORMS; CONTROL; COST FUNCTIONS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84855393987     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2150350     Document Type: Article

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