Optimal attack strategies in a dynamic botnet defense model

Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-33

  Shang, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Botnet defense; Dynamic programming; Epidemic models; Optimal control; Virus epidemics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856946171     PISSN: 19350090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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