Abstract

The spreading behavior of passive worms in mobile social networks has raised a lot of research concerns in network security for sometime now. Consequently, due to the dynamic and complex nature of mobile social networks, studies are still evolving. In this paper we introduce the spreading behavior of passive worms and present a model accordingly. We tackle the peers that constitute the mobile topology and user behavior as consideration and present a five-state spreading model for passive worms spreading. Our model also simplified the fact that size of a mobile social network is large enough but devices have limited resources like memory, processor, battery etc. Our simulation result has also not only validated the effectiveness of the model but closely evaluated it's efficient performance as compared to similar recent researches.

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