• DocumentCode
    1467432
  • Title

    Locating Defense Positions for Thwarting the Propagation of Topological Worms

  • Author

    Wen, Sheng ; Zhou, Wei ; Wang, Yini ; Zhou, Wanlei ; Xiang, Yang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    560
  • Lastpage
    563
  • Abstract
    A common view for the preferable positions of thwarting worm propagation is at the highly connected nodes. However, in certain conditions, such as when some popular users (highly connected nodes in the network) have more vigilance on the malicious codes, this may not always be the truth. In this letter, we propose a measure of betweenness and closeness to locate the most suitable positions for slowing down the worm propagation. This work provides practical values to the defense of topological worms.
  • Keywords
    computer network security; telecommunication network topology; defense position localisation; highly connected nodes; malicious codes; network security; topological worm propagation; Computational modeling; Grippers; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Security; Social network services; Topology; Network security; propagation; worms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2012.030512.112452
  • Filename
    6168149