— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
Abstract. The recent proliferation of Internet worms has raised questions about defensive measures. To date most techniques proposed are passive, in-so-far as they attempt to block...
We give the first systematic investigation of the design space of worm defense system strategies. We accomplish this by g a taxonomy of defense strategies by abstracting away impl...
David Brumley, Li-Hao Liu, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn...
Due to the fast spreading nature and great damage of Internet worms, it is necessary to implement automatic mitigation, such as dynamic quarantine, on computer networks. Enlighten...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Weibo Gong, Donald F. Towsley
Self-propagating codes, called worms, such as Code Red, Nimda, and Slammer, have drawn significant attention due to their enormous adverse impact on the Internet. There is a grea...