Title :
A Survey of Botnet Size Measurement
Author :
Liu, Shangdong ; Gong, Jian ; Yang, Wang ; Jakalan, Ahmad
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Comput. Network Technol. of Jiangsu Province, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Botnet size is one of the most important characteristics to evaluate the threat of botnet. Previous studies of botnet size basically focus on details and concreteness instead of nature of problem due to polymorphic, versatile, complex behavior of botnet and partial observation on network. This paper investigates the nature of botnet size, upon which four issues are introduced. The paper summarizes the existing solutions to the four issues and analyzes the challenges to resolve them deeply. Finally, some valuable research works of next step are proposed.
Keywords :
computer network security; Botnet size measurement; botnet complex behavior; network partial observation; Cloning; Command and control systems; IP networks; Internet; Security; Servers; Size measurement; Botnet Clone; Botnet Migrating; Botnet Size; DHCP; NAT;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Distributed Computing (ICNDC), 2011 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0407-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICNDC.2011.15
