Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Maintaining the security of critical infrastructure networks is vital for a modern economy. This paper examines a game-theoretic model of attack and defense of a network in which the defender's objective is to maintain network connectivity and the attacker's objective is to destroy a set of nodes that disconnects the network. The conflict at each node is modeled as a contest in which the player that allocates the higher level of force wins the node. Although there are multiple mixed-strategy equilibria, we characterize correlation structures in the players' multivariate joint distributions of force across nodes that arise in all equilibria. For example, in all equilibria the attacker utilizes a stochastic `guerrilla warfare' strategy in which a single random [minimal] set of nodes that disconnects the network is attacked.
Recommended Citation
Kovenock, D. and Roberson, B. (2015). The optimal defense of network connectivity. ESI Working Paper 15-24. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_papers/173
Comments
Working Paper 15-24