An Analytical Model of Malware Spread in Wireless Personal Area Networks

In this work, we present an analytical model of malware spreading in wireless personal area networks (WPAN) based on IEEE 802.15. This model describes WPAN by means of some statistical parameters such as the average node degree of the network, the average encountering rate between nodes and the duration of connection etc. Also it expounds what effects the network protocols and moving patterns have on the malware propagation. Simulation results show that this model can properly predict the spread of malware in WPAN.