A Network Monitoring Game with Heterogeneous Component Criticality Levels
2019 (English)In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019, p. 4379-4384Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We consider an attacker-operator game for monitoring a large-scale network that is comprised of components that differ in their criticality levels. In this zero-sum game, the operator seeks to position a limited number of sensors to monitor the network against the attacker who strategically targets a network component. The operator (resp. attacker) seeks to minimize (resp. maximize) the network loss. To study the properties of mixed-strategy Nash Equilibria of this game, we first study two simple instances: When component sets monitored from individual sensor locations are mutually disjoint; When only a single sensor is positioned, but with possibly overlapping monitoring component sets. Our analysis reveals new insights on how criticality levels impact the players equilibrium strategies. Next, we extend a previously developed approach to obtain an approximate Nash equilibrium in the general case. This approach uses solutions to minimum set cover and maximum set packing problems to construct an approximate Nash equilibrium. Finally, we implement a column generation procedure to improve this solution and numerically evaluate the performance of our approach.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019. p. 4379-4384
Keywords [en]
Computation theory, Game theory, Linear programming, Column generation, Equilibrium strategy, Heterogeneous component, Large-scale network, Minimum set cover, Network Monitoring, Sensor location, Set packing problem, Criticality (nuclear fission)
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-274080DOI: 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029427ISI: 000560779004006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85082501356OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-274080DiVA, id: diva2:1451195
Conference
58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019, 11 December 2019 through 13 December 2019
Note
QC 20200702
Part of ISBN 9781728113982
2020-07-022020-07-022024-10-15Bibliographically approved