Investigation Of Cybernetic Worm Propagation Model In Bluetooth Enabled Devices

Abstract

The malware programs or worms become a serious threat to the networking society. It is a self-dependent program that can propagate through the communication network and it replicates over it. The target system shall occur mild to serious security as well as privacy risks. These programs shall cause inconsistency in the network by occupying the bandwidth, denial of service, producing redundant information, file degeneracy, file alteration, etc. The necessity to study the characteristic of these worms is a must to safeguard any communication network. This research focused on the investigation of worm propagation in multimedia-enabled devices, especially under Bluetooth communication. This thesis provides two efficient approaches to examine the worm propagation under controlled conditions. The outcomes of the investigation have been compared with the existing worm propagation mechanism and the consequences are discussed. Since mobility is an important factor that affects the propagation of these worms, certain distinctive mobility patterns and their characteristics are examined. newline newline newlineConsidering the multimedia communication, the devices that are the target to be contaminated by these worms. Bluetooth is the most widely used low power and low range file transfer communication protocol among digital devices. So, these worms are programmed to traverse efficiently in these networks. The possibility of contamination of a node or a device is analyzed. The master or the initial node starts its worm propagation by discovering the nearby available nodes and generates a paging list containing the MAC address of the available newline newline newline newline newlinenodes. It then selects a node based on certain parameters like mobility and range of the node. There are certain possibilities while connecting to a node they are the node shall reject the communication link, the node shall disconnect with the link and the node shall accept the link and pair with the master for file transmission. Once the link establishment is successful then the