Security analysis of the micro transport protocol with a misbehaving receiver

Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 143-150

  Adamsky, Florian ^a   Khayam, Syed Ali ^b   Jäger, Rudolf ^c   Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^c TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH USAGE; BITTORRENT; CONGESTION COLLAPSE; CORRUPTED DATA; DATA INTEGRITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MICRO-TRANSPORT; PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOLS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SHOW THROUGH;

BANDWIDTH; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872359093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CyberC.2012.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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