Epinet: A simulation framework to study the spread of malware in wireless networks

SIMUTools 2009 - 2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Channakeshava, Karthik ^a   Chafekar, Deepti ^b   Bisset, Keith ^c   Kumar, V S Anil ^c   Marathe, Madhav ^c  

^a Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based; Bluetooth; Malware; Wireless epidemics

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; COMPUTER CRIME; DISEASE CONTROL; DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNET; MALWARE;

ABSTRACT MODELING; ACTIVITY-BASED; ACTIVITY-BASED MODELS; RANDOM WAYPOINT MOBILITY MODEL; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WORM PROPAGATION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84922876220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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