A survey of game theory as applied to network security

Authors

Sankardas Roy, University of Memphis
Charles Ellis, University of Memphis
Sajjan Shiva, University of Memphis
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of MemphisFollow
Vivek Shandilya, University of Memphis
Qishi Wu, University of Memphis

Abstract

Network security is a complex and challenging problem. The area of network defense mechanism design is receiving immense attention from the research community for more than two decades. However, the network security problem is far from completely solved. Researchers have been exploring the applicability of game theoretic approaches to address the network security issues and some of these approaches look promising. This paper surveys the existing game theoretic solutions which are designed to enhance network security and presents a taxonomy for classifying the proposed solutions. This taxonomy should provide the reader with a better understanding of game theoretic solutions to a variety of cyber security problems. © 2010 IEEE.

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Recommended Citation

Roy, S., Ellis, C., Shiva, S., Dasgupta, D., Shandilya, V., & Wu, Q. (2010). A survey of game theory as applied to network security. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.35