Abstract
Once a problem associated only with email, spam is now affecting other media, such as instant messaging, blogs, newsgroups and mobile phone messaging. As wireless networks become more commonplace, we can expect that spam will find its way into upcoming wireless communication services. This paper studies the threat posed by malicious nodes inserting spam in a wireless network using gossiping as a method for information dissemination. We identify the security mechanisms needed to protect our gossip network against the proliferation of spam, reducing the problem to a matter of finding and removing corrupted messages. Finally, we propose a probabilistic method of integrity checking to contain the spread of spam which we evaluate through extensive simulations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2007 Fourth Annual Conference on Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS'07 |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 30-37 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4244-0860-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 Aug 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 4th Annual Conference on Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2007 - Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria Duration: 24 Jan 2007 → 26 Jan 2007 Conference number: 4 |
Conference
Conference | 4th Annual Conference on Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2007 |
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Abbreviated title | WONS |
Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Obergurgl, Tyrol |
Period | 24/01/07 → 26/01/07 |