TY - GEN
T1 - A mixed abstraction level simulation model of large-scale Internet worm infestations
AU - Liljenstam, M.
AU - Yuan, Y.
AU - Premore, B. J.
AU - Nicol, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2002 IEEE.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Large-scale worm infestations, such as last year's Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda, have led to increased interest in modeling these events to assess threat levels, evaluate countermeasures and investigate possible influence on the Internet infrastructure. However the inherently large scale of these phenomena pose significant challenges for models that include infrastructure detail. We explore the use of selective abstraction through epidemiological models in conjunction with detailed protocol models as a means to scale up simulations to a point where we can ask meaningful questions regarding a hypothesized link between worms and inter-domain routing instability. We find that this approach shows significant promise, in contrast to some of our early attempts using all-out packet level models. We also describe some approaches we are taking to collect the underlying data for our models.
AB - Large-scale worm infestations, such as last year's Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda, have led to increased interest in modeling these events to assess threat levels, evaluate countermeasures and investigate possible influence on the Internet infrastructure. However the inherently large scale of these phenomena pose significant challenges for models that include infrastructure detail. We explore the use of selective abstraction through epidemiological models in conjunction with detailed protocol models as a means to scale up simulations to a point where we can ask meaningful questions regarding a hypothesized link between worms and inter-domain routing instability. We find that this approach shows significant promise, in contrast to some of our early attempts using all-out packet level models. We also describe some approaches we are taking to collect the underlying data for our models.
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U2 - 10.1109/MASCOT.2002.1167067
DO - 10.1109/MASCOT.2002.1167067
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880028758
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS
SP - 109
EP - 116
BT - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS 2002
A2 - Boukerche, A.
A2 - Majumdar, S.
A2 - Das, S.K.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS 2002
Y2 - 11 October 2002 through 16 October 2002
ER -