Trade-off between being attacked and being protected

James Mao; F. Yan; K. H. Yeung

doi:10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.114

Trade-off between being attacked and being protected

James Mao, F. Yan, K. H. Yeung

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Abstract

Inside a computer network, virus brings damage and cost money. On the other hand, anti-virus software brings protection and cost money as well. The trade-off between being attacked by virus and paying money to get protection is of interest to study. To study this, we present a model to simulate the decision-making process of each computer user within a network of computers. Similar models that simulate virus or information spreading across human networks are out there for years. But our model has one novel difference. Instead of using fixed random network structure to build the simulation network, our model take network structure as one of the factors that may affect users' decision-making process.

Original language	English
Pages	565-572
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.114
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2012 - Macau, China Duration: 18 Jun 2012 → 21 Jun 2012

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Conference	32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2012
Country/Territory	China
City	Macau
Period	18/06/12 → 21/06/12

Keywords

network security
network topology
virus attack

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