Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
5-2008
Abstract
The surge of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks consisting of thousands of of hosts makes them a breeding ground for malware proliferation. Although some existing studies have shown that malware proliferation can pose significant threats to P2P networks, defending against such an attack is largely an open problem. This paper aims to develop the countermeasure that can effectively mitigate the malware proliferation while preserving P2P networks' performance. To this end, we propose a dynamic trust management scheme based upon localized trust evaluation and alert propagation which prevents innocent peers from downloading files from infected peers. Our analysis and experimental results show that our approach can effectively reduce the malware proliferation rate.
Keywords
P2P systems, malware proliferation, dynamic trust
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Cybersecurity
Publication
IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC '08, 19-23 May, Beijing
First Page
1605
Last Page
1609
ISBN
9781424420759
Identifier
10.1109/ICC.2008.310
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
DING, Xuhua; YU, Wei; and PAN, Ying.
A Dynamic Trust Management Scheme to Mitigate Malware Proliferation in P2P Networks. (2008). IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC '08, 19-23 May, Beijing. 1605-1609.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/301
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2008.310