Game Theoretic Modeling and Evolution of Trust in Autonomous Multi-Hop Networks: Application to Network Security and Privacy

Kamhoua, Charles A.; Pissinou, Niki; Makki, Kia

doi:10.1109/icc.2011.5962511

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“…They show how an attacker can infiltrate a network at one node, but spread to other nodes (or infrastructures) due to contagion. Kamhoua et al analyzed cyber security problem that cannot be solved by a single agent [4]. Their evolutionary game model shows that security depends on the initial trust among the agent.…”

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Game Theoretic Modeling of Security and Interdependency in a Public Cloud

Kamhoua

Kwiat

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2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing

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Abstract-As cloud computing thrives, many small organizations are joining a public cloud to take advantage of its multiple benefits. Cloud computing is cost efficient, i.e., cloud user can reduce spending on technology infrastructure and have easy access to their information without up-front or long-term commitment of resources. Moreover, a cloud user can dynamically grow and shrink the resources provisioned to an application on demand. Despite those benefits, cyber security concern is the main reason many large organizations with sensitive information such as the Department of Defense have been reluctant to join a public cloud. This is because different public cloud users share a common platform such as the hypervisor. A common platform intensifies the well-known problem of cyber security interdependency. In fact, an attacker can compromise a virtual machine (VM) to launch an attack on the hypervisor which if compromised can instantly yield the compromising of all the VMs running on top of that hypervisor. Therefore, a user that does not invest in cyber security imposes a negative externality on others. This research uses the mathematical framework of game theory to analyze the cause and effect of interdependency in a public cloud platform. This work shows that there are multiple possible Nash equilibria of the public cloud security game. However, the players use a specific Nash equilibrium profile depending on the probability that the hypervisor is compromised given a successful attack on a user and the total expense required to invest in security. Finally, there is no Nash equilibrium in which all the users in a public cloud will fully invest in security.

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Game Theoretic Modeling of Security and Interdependency in a Public Cloud

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Kwiat

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2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing

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“…The second part of my dissertation is presented in Chapter 7 [21] and involves autonomous network security. As with traditional networks, these networks need to be secured to authenticate the nodes, prevent misuse, detect anomalies, and protect user privacy.…”

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“…This is investigated in the next Section. Specifically, the main contribution of this Chapter [21] is to investigate security mechanisms and privacy protection schemes that require the cooperation of several nodes or agents to be effective and highlight the importance of trust in such a scenario.…”

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“…Cooperation among ad hoc nodes can also protect a network from malicious attacks. In the absence of a central, trusted entity, new classes of distributed security mechanisms and privacy protections require cooperation among several ad hoc nodes to protect a network from malicious attacks [21][22][23]. This dissertation specifically addresses selfish and malicious nodes.…”

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“…Without trust, no intelligent node will participate in any security mechanism that involves the collaboration of several nodes to be successful. Absolutely, numerous security mechanisms require some level of trust in their design and implementation [21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Wireless sensor network (WSN) are used to sense, process, and send important information relating to surrounding environment. In these network, one of the important issue is timely delivery of packets to destination and thus avoiding packet loss when sensor nodes are mobile. Most of the current research does not allow handling of packets of mobile sensor nodes till next Time‐division multiple access (TDMA) schedule. In this work, we investigate the problem of allocating reserved slots to mobile nodes which come in vicinity of new cluster head in currenTDMAschedule only. We model allocation of reserved slots to mobile nodes as cooperative game. We then propose cooperative coordination scheme to allow cooperation among mobile sensor nodes for accessing of reserved slots with the objective of avoiding unnecessary delay and packet loss in the network. We consider solution for both the cases when reserved slot is limited to 1 and when reserved slots are more than 1. We then propose evolutionary game theory‐based slot allocation scheme for calculation of probability by solving nash equilibrium point. This probability is used by mobile nodes to send data packets to new cluster head. Our scheme avoids end to end delay of packets and network congestion due to buffer overflows. We then present extensive simulation results comparing our scheme with existing techniques. The results show higher performance in terms of average residual energy, network lifetime and packet delivery ratio etc.

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Game Theoretic Modeling and Evolution of Trust in Autonomous Multi-Hop Networks: Application to Network Security and Privacy

Cited by 43 publications

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Game Theoretic Modeling of Security and Interdependency in a Public Cloud

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