Research on the Propagation Models and Defense Techniques of Internet Worms

Internet worm is harmful to network security,and it has become a research hotspot in recent years.A thorough survey on the propagation models and defense techniques of Internet worm is made in this paper.We first give its strict definition and discuss the working mechanism.We then analyze and compare some repre-sentative worm propagation models proposed in recent years,such as K-M model,two-factor model,worm-anti-worm model（WAW）,firewall-based model,quarantine-based model and hybrid benign worm-based model,etc.Some typical defense techniques such as virtual honeypot,active worm prevention and agent-oriented worm defense,etc.,are also discussed.The future direction of the worm defense system is pointed out.

A Survey of Bitmap Index Compression Algorithms for Big Data

With the growing popularity of Internet applications and the widespread use of mobile Internet, Internet traffic has maintained rapid growth over the past two decades. Internet Traffic Archival Systems（ITAS） for packets or flow records have become more and more widely used in network monitoring, network troubleshooting, and user behavior and experience analysis. Among the three key technologies in ITAS, we focus on bitmap index compression algorithm and give a detailed survey in this paper. The current state-of-the-art bitmap index encoding schemes include： BBC, WAH, PLWAH, EWAH, PWAH, CONCISE, COMPAX, VLC, DF-WAH, and VAL-WAH. Based on differences in segmentation, chunking, merge compress, and Near Identical（NI） features, we provide a thorough categorization of the state-of-the-art bitmap index compression algorithms. We also propose some new bitmap index encoding algorithms, such as SECOMPAX, ICX, MASC, and PLWAH＋, and present the state diagrams for their encoding algorithms. We then evaluate their CPU and GPU implementations with a real Internet trace from CAIDA. Finally, we summarize and discuss the future direction of bitmap index compression algorithms. Beyond the application in network security and network forensic, bitmap index compression with faster bitwise-logical operations and reduced search space is widely used in analysis in genome data, geographical information system, graph databases, image retrieval, Internet of things, etc. It is expected that bitmap index compression will thrive and be prosperous again in Big Data era since 1980s.