General Worm Propagation Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
The popularity of wireless communication networks makes them an attractive target to the creators of worms and other malicious code. Indeed, recently a number of worms designed specifically to spread via these wireless networks have emerged. Based on the epidemic theory, this paper proposes a general model which predicts how a worm propagates through a wireless ad hoc network. Then the differential equations of the model is presented and a necessary condition for worms to spread in these networks is derived, which may be useful in designing a secure wireless ad hoc network. Simulation results show that the process of worm propagation in these wireless networks is sensitive to the deployment density of nodes and the energy consumption of nodes. Therefore, our study can provide insight into deriving a general model to characterize worm propagation in wireless ad hoc networks.
wireless network worm epidemiology threshold
Chen Junhua Wei Shengjun Peng Wu
School of Computer Science and Technology Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China Lab for Computer Network Defense Technology Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China
国际会议
北京
英文
1789-1794
2009-08-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）