Title :
Epidemics of Mobile Worms
Author_Institution :
Security Expertise Center of Excellence, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Abstract :
Mathematical epidemiology has been developing for over a hundred years. Mathematical models developed for spreading of viruses in human populations take into account various effects influencing the epidemic. Recently results of mathematical epidemiology have also been applied to modeling of epidemic viruses in computer networks. The current work applies results of mathematical epidemiology to the research of dynamics of potential epidemics of worms in mobile networks. The work simulates epidemics of two types of mobile worms that we have already run into - MMS and Bluetooth worms.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; computer viruses; electronic messaging; mobile computing; mobile radio; telecommunication security; Bluetooth worms; MMS worms; computer networks; epidemic viruses; mathematical epidemiology; mobile networks; mobile worm epidemics; Analytical models; Bluetooth; Computer viruses; Computer worms; Diseases; Humans; Mathematical model; Mobile handsets; Wide area networks; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2007. IPCCC 2007. IEEE Internationa
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1138-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1097-2641
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.2007.358929
