A percolation-based recovery mechanism for bot infected P2P cloud

Abstract

Execution of any recovery procedure in compromised nodes of a Cloud should aim at covering as many nodes as possible in a given time. The authors propose an innovative approach using the concept of percolation centrality to spread the execution of a recovery procedure across adjacent nodes in a P2PCloud. Compromised networks can be large since botnets and malware infections use the advantage of the internet to spread rapidly. Using percolation centrality to choose a node from where to begin, the recovery procedure runs in parallel in different nodes which can be reached from a chosen node and spreads fast.