TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling the spread of worm epidemics in wireless sensor networks
AU - Wei, Shengjun
AU - Chen, Junhua
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The dramatic increase in the number of sensors with wireless communication capability has resulted in the emergence of a new class of computer worms which specifically target such sensors networks. The most striking feature of worm in these networks is that they do not require Internet connectivity for their propagation but can spread directly from a sensor node to another sensor node using a short-range radio communication technology. In this paper, we model and analyze the spread of worm in wireless sensor networks using the epidemic theory. From numerical simulation results, we observe that the process of worm propagation is very sensitive to the density of nodes, the energy consumption of nodes and the sleep and work interleaving schedule policy for nodes. Therefore, our simulation study can provide insight into deriving a formal model to characterize worm propagation in sensor networks.
AB - The dramatic increase in the number of sensors with wireless communication capability has resulted in the emergence of a new class of computer worms which specifically target such sensors networks. The most striking feature of worm in these networks is that they do not require Internet connectivity for their propagation but can spread directly from a sensor node to another sensor node using a short-range radio communication technology. In this paper, we model and analyze the spread of worm in wireless sensor networks using the epidemic theory. From numerical simulation results, we observe that the process of worm propagation is very sensitive to the density of nodes, the energy consumption of nodes and the sleep and work interleaving schedule policy for nodes. Therefore, our simulation study can provide insight into deriving a formal model to characterize worm propagation in sensor networks.
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Wireless sensor network
KW - Worms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=73149119794&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WICOM.2009.5301407
DO - 10.1109/WICOM.2009.5301407
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:73149119794
SN - 9781424436934
T3 - Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009
BT - Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009
T2 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2009
Y2 - 24 September 2009 through 26 September 2009
ER -