Modeling and Simulation of Worms and Mitigation Techniques

ISBN-13: 9783639133950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str.

Mohamed Abdelhafez

Opis

Internet worm attacks have become increasingly morefrequent and have had a major impact on the economy, making the detection andprevention of these attacks a top security concern. Several counter-measures have beenproposed and evaluated in recent literature. However, the effect of these proposeddefensive mechanisms on legitimate competing traffichas not been analyzed. This book presents a comparative analysis of theeffectiveness of several of these proposed mechanisms,including a measure of their effect on normal webbrowsing activities. This book also presents a study of the behavior ofTCP based worms in MANETs. We develop an analytical model for the worm spread ofTCP worms in the MANETs environment that accounts forpayload-size,bandwidth-sharing, radio range, nodal density and several other parameters specific for MANETtopologies. We also present numerical solutions forthe model and verify the results usingpacket-level simulations. The results show that the analytical model developed here matches theresults of the packet-level simulation in most cases.

O autorze

Mohamed Abdelhafez received his PhD from Georgia Institute of
Technology in 2007. During his graduate work he researched
several network security related problems. Mohamed was one
of the main contributors to the Georgia Tech Network Simulator
(GTNetS) and built extensive models for worm simulations into
GTNetS.