A drawback of current anti-virus simulations: the need for background traffic

  • Authors:
  • Attila Ondi

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Although the most basic simulations of worm spread require the simulation of only the traffic generated by the malcode, when modeling the effects of antiworm techniques the results can be misleading if the background traffic is not taken into consideration. Despite the need for background traffic, no anti-worm simulation to date incorporates general traffic in the model.In this work I introduce a simple model of background traffic generation for arbitrary size networks. My approach builds on a traffic generation model for security testing and is validated against the predictions of the base model.