Reaction-diffusion modeling of malware propagation in mobile wireless sensor networks

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Wang, XiaoMing ^a   He, ZaoBo ^a   Zhao, XueQing ^a   Lin, Chuang ^b   Pan, Yi ^c   Cai, ZhiPeng ^c  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

equilibrium point; malware propagation; mobile wireless sensor network; reaction diffusion equation; spatial distribution; stability; targeted immunization strategy

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM POINT; MALWARE PROPAGATION; MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; TARGETED IMMUNIZATION STRATEGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMMUNIZATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SENSOR NODES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84883791574     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-013-4977-4     Document Type: Article

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