IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Optimally Identifying Worm-Infected Hosts
Noriaki KAMIYAMATatsuya MORIRyoichi KAWAHARAShigeaki HARADA
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2013 Volume E96.B Issue 8 Pages 2084-2094

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We have proposed a method of identifying superspreaders by flow sampling and a method of filtering legitimate hosts from the identified superspreaders using a white list. However, the problem of how to optimally set parameters of φ, the measurement period length, m*, the identification threshold of the flow count m within φ, and H*, the identification probability for hosts with m=m*, remained unsolved. These three parameters seriously impact the ability to identify the spread of infection. Our contributions in this work are two-fold: (1) we propose a method of optimally designing these three parameters to satisfy the condition that the ratio of the number of active worm-infected hosts divided by the number of all vulnerable hosts is bound by a given upper-limit during the time T required to develop a patch or an anti-worm vaccine, and (2) the proposed method can optimize the identification accuracy of worm-infected hosts by maximally using a limited amount of memory resource of monitors.

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