Modeling and defending against adaptive bittorrent worms in peer-to-peer networks

J. Luo; Bin Xiao; Q. Xiao; Jiannong Cao; M. Guo

doi:10.1145/2567925

Modeling and defending against adaptive bittorrent worms in peer-to-peer networks

J. Luo, Bin Xiao, Q. Xiao, Jiannong Cao, M. Guo

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Abstract

In this article, we present a novel P2P worm, called Adaptive BitTorrent worm (A-BT worm), in BT-like networks, which propagates itself by requesting a tracker for vulnerable peers. We believe that such a worm could pose a vital threat to the P2P security for the following reasons: (1) it has the ability to locate most recent active peers; (2) it is easy to be implemented; (3) it can adaptively adjust its speed to reduce its abnormal behavior. By combining the fluid model with the epidemic model, we build a hybrid model to measure the worm damage. We also discuss the possible strategies to detect and contain the worm.

Original language	English
Article number	5
Journal	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2567925
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

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