Virus propagation in heterogeneous Bluetooth networks with human behaviors

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 930-943

  Jackson, Jennifer T ^a   Creese, Sadie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human factors; invasive software (viruses; pervasive computing; trojan horses); wireless; worms

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BLUETOOTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NETWORK SECURITY; RADIO; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VIRUSES;

BLUETOOTH COMMUNICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES; INVASIVE SOFTWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; WORMS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 84866622348     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2012.72     Document Type: Article

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