Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Worm propagation modeling and analysis under dynamic quarantine defense
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
On the Characterization and Evaluation of Mobile Attack Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
ISCC '06 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Maximum damage malware attack in mobile wireless networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Maximum damage malware attack in mobile wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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In this paper, we introduce and design a modeling framework that allows for the study and analysis of attack propagation in mobile ad hoc networks. The choice of a statistical approach for the problem is motivated by the dynamic characteristics of the ad hoc topology and the stochastic nature of threat propagation. Based on this probabilistic modeling framework, we study the impact of topology and mobility in the propagation of software threats over ad hoc networks. We design topology control algorithms that indicate how to properly adjust an attacker's transmission radius, according to the measured topological characteristics and availability of its resources, in the process of infecting a network more effectively. Then based on these topology control algorithms we develop different attack strategies that may range from independent attacks to cooperative scenarios in order to increase the negative impact of an attack on the network. Our performance evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed topology control algorithms and respective attack strategies effectively balance the tradeoffs between the potential network damage and the attackers' lifetime, and as a result significantly outperform any other flat and threshold-based approaches.