Multi End-Hopping Modeling and Optimization Using Cooperative Game
| Title | Multi End-Hopping Modeling and Optimization Using Cooperative Game |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Xiong, X., Yang, L. |
| Conference Name | 2017 4th International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering (ICISCE) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-5386-3013-6 |
| Keywords | computer network security, Control engineering, cooperative game, cyber-attack, DoS attack, game theory, hosts, information science, malicious scanning, MEH, moving target defense, MTD, multi end-hopping, Network reconnaissance, optimisation, optimization method, PCS, possible configurable space, pubcrawl, Resiliency |
| Abstract | End-hopping is an effective component of Moving Target Defense (MTD) by randomly hopping network configuration of host, which is a game changing technique against cyber-attack and can interrupt cyber kill chain in the early stage. In this paper, a novel end-hopping model, Multi End-hopping (MEH), is proposed to exploit the full potentials of MTD techniques by hosts cooperating with others to share possible configurable space (PCS). And an optimization method based on cooperative game is presented to make hosts form optimal alliances against reconnaissance, scanning and blind probing DoS attack. Those model and method confuse adversaries by establishing alliances of hosts to enlarge their PCS, which thwarts various malicious scanning and mitigates probing DoS attack intensity. Through simulations, we validate the correctness of MEH model and the effectiveness of optimization method. Experiment results show that the proposed model and method increase system stable operational probability while introduces a low overhead in optimization. |
| URL | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8110332/ |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICISCE.2017.105 |
| Citation Key | xiong_multi_2017 |