Coupled Kermack-McKendrick models for randomly scanning and bandwidth-saturating internet worms

George Kesidis, Ihab Hamadeh, Soranun Jiwasurat

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Abstract

We present a simple, deterministic mathematical model for the spread of randomly scanning and bandwidth-saturating Internet worms. Such worms include Slammer and Witty, both of which spread extremely rapidly. Our model, consisting of coupled Kermack-McKendrick equations, captures both the measured scanning activity of the worm and the network limitation of its spread, i.e., the effective scan-rate per worm/infective. We fit our model to available data for the Slammer worm and demonstrate its ability to accurately represent Slammer's total scan-rate to the core.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)101-109
Number of pages9
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume3375
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
EventThird International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2005 - Catania, Italy
Duration: Feb 2 2005Feb 4 2005

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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