A Pulse Immunization Model for Inhibiting Malware Propagation in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

WANG Xiaoming; HE Zaobo; ZHANG Lichen

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WANG Xiaoming, HE Zaobo, ZHANG Lichen, “A Pulse Immunization Model for Inhibiting Malware Propagation in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 810-815, 2014,

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WANG Xiaoming, HE Zaobo, ZHANG Lichen, “A Pulse Immunization Model for Inhibiting Malware Propagation in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 810-815, 2014,

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A Pulse Immunization Model for Inhibiting Malware Propagation in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

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School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China;
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Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA

Funds: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61173094, No.61373083) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No.GK201401002, No.GK201302024).

Received Date: 2013-06-01
Rev Recd Date: 2014-04-01
Publish Date: 2014-10-05

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Mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) may be under attack due to their large-scale characteristics. One of the main threats is to inject malware into some nodes. To prevent malware from spreading in a largescale MWSN, an effective measure is to immunize susceptible nodes by disseminating and installing security patches. This work suggests a novel modeling framework and some mathematical models based on the pulse differential equation and the epidemic theory, in which the immunization operations are implemented on susceptible nodes in a pulse way. The maximum immunization period of time is derived to minimine the number of immunization operations while ensuring malware extinct over time in the MWSN. The theoretical results are confirmed by extensive simulations.
- MWSN,
- Malware propagation,
- Susceptibleinfected-recovered (SIR),
- Pulse differential equation,
- Maximum immunization period of time

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