Saddle-point strategies in malware attack

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-43

  Khouzani, M H R ^a   Sarkar, Saswati ^a   Altman, Eitan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Bang Bang Control; Dynamic Game; Immunization; Malware Attack; Mean Field Convergence; Quarantining; Robust Defense; Saddle point Strategy; Wireless Communications Security; Zero sum Game

Indexed keywords

BANG-BANG CONTROL; DYNAMIC GAME; MALWARE ATTACKS; MEAN-FIELD; QUARANTINING; ROBUST DEFENSE; SADDLE POINT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY; ZERO-SUM GAME;

BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; IMMUNIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84855430196     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120104     Document Type: Article

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