Iraklitos — Security Applications for Peer-to-Peer Networks

Project Code: 19
Funding programme: Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II) - Action 2.2.3.b - Iraklitos research fellowships at the Athens University of Economics and Business
Funding Agency: Ministry of Education
Project type: RTD
Starting date: 2002-11-08
Ending date: 2007-05-30
Total budget: 33,009

Contact: Vasileios Vlachos
Scientific coordinator: Diomidis Spinellis

Description

During the last years several worm epidemics have emerged as major threats to critical digital infrastructures. To make large-scale networks more resilient against these kind of threats, we evaluate the usage of peer-to-peer architectures whereby each peer is responsible for

  • Detecting whether a virus or worm is uncontrollably propagating through the network resulting in an epidemic.
  • Automatically dispatching warnings and information to other peers of a security-focused group.
  • Taking specific precautions for their host by automatically hardening their security measures during the epidemic.

Publications

Journal Articles

    • Vasileios Vlachos, Stefanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Security applications of peer-to-peer networks. Computer Networks, 45(2):195–205, June 2004.

Conference Publications

    • Vasileios Vlachos, Vassiliki Vouzi, Damianos Chatziantoniou, and Diomidis Spinellis. NGCE — network graphs for computer epidemiologists. In Panagiotis Bozanis and Elias N. Houstis, editors, Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, 672–683. Springer-Verlag, November 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3746.