A Differential Game Based Approach Against Objective Function Attack in Cognitive Networks

FENG Guangsheng; LIN Junyu; ZHAO Qian; WANG Huiqiang; LYU Hongwu; ZHAO Xiaoyu; HAN Jizhong; LI Bingyang

doi:10.1049/cje.2017.08.006

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FENG Guangsheng, LIN Junyu, ZHAO Qian, et al., “A Differential Game Based Approach Against Objective Function Attack in Cognitive Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 879-888, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2017.08.006

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FENG Guangsheng, LIN Junyu, ZHAO Qian, et al., “A Differential Game Based Approach Against Objective Function Attack in Cognitive Networks,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 879-888, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2017.08.006

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A Differential Game Based Approach Against Objective Function Attack in Cognitive Networks

doi: 10.1049/cje.2017.08.006

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College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China;
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Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China;
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School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, China

Funds: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61502118, No.61402127, No.61370212) and the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province in China (No.F2016028, No.F2016009, No.F2015029).

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Corresponding author: LIN Junyu (corresponding author) was born in 1981. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from HEU in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Now, he is postdoctoral in Chinese Academe Sciences. His research interests include ubiquitous services and trustworthiness analysis. (Email:linjunyu.hrb@gmail.com)
Received Date: 2016-06-20
Rev Recd Date: 2016-11-28
Publish Date: 2018-07-10

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We study the problem of defense strategy against Objective function attack (OFA) in Cognitive networks (CNs), where the network can be operated at the optimal state by adapting the parameters of its objective function. An OFA attacker can disrupt the parameter adaptation by interfering measures, which results in some operating parameters of the objective function deviating from their optimal settings. We first model the interactive process between the OFA attacker and defense system using differential game theory, and propose a defense strategy by introducing a new metric, namely, threat factor. Then, we obtain the optimal defense strategy by proving the existence of the saddle point of the proposed model. Moreover, this defense strategy is scale-free such that it can conquer a large number of OFAs in a decentralized way. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations to show that the proposed approach is effective.
- Cognitive networks,
- Objective function,
- Operating parameter,
- Saddle point

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