How an SMS-based malware infection will get throttled by the wireless link

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 960-965

  Murynets, Ilona ^a   Jover, Roger Piqueras ^a  

^a AT and T Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALWARE PROPAGATION; MALWARES; METROPOLITAN AREA; SIMULATION MODEL; SPAMMERS; SPREADING RATE; UMTS NETWORKS; WIRELESS LINK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84871962375     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6363738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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