Mobile, Embedded, & Wireless Security

Modeling Interactions between Attackers and Defenders


New software-defined radio and network capabilities allow attacking, greedy, or defending opponents to adapt their protocol operations or behaviors in reponse to detected threats or failures, or even proactively in a sort of moving target defense technique. The value of such adaptation is often clearly understood as long as the opponent is static, as convergence properties can be well-defined in such a case. However, if multiple opponents are simultaneously adapting in response to each other, the system dynamics can not be as easily described. We thus aim to model such multi-player adaptation using a combination of game theory, control theory, empirical data analytics, and stochastic modeling.

Jam/Anti-Jam Interaction

Related Publications

  • Bruce DeBruhl, Sean Weerakkody, Bruno Sinopoli, and Patrick Tague, "Is Your Commute Driving you Crazy? A Study of Misbehavior in Vehicular Platoons", ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Jun 2015. [pdf,bib]

  • Bruce DeBruhl, Christian Kroer, Anupam Datta, Tuomas Sandholm, and Patrick Tague, "Power Napping with Loud Neighbors: Optimal Energy-Constrained Jamming and Anti-Jamming", ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Jul 2014. [pdf,bib]

  • Bruce DeBruhl and Patrick Tague, "Keeping up with the Jammers: Observe-and-Adapt Algorithms for Studying Mutually Adaptive Opponents", Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 244-257, Jun 2014. [pdf,bib]

  • Bruce DeBruhl and Patrick Tague, "Living with Boisterous Neighbors: Studying the Interaction of Adaptive Jamming and Anti-Jamming", 3rd International Workshop on Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks (D-SPAN), Jun 2012. [pdf,bib]

  • Bruce DeBruhl, Yu Seung Kim, and Patrick Tague, "A Toolbox to Explore the Interaction of Adaptive Jamming and Anti-Jamming", 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Mar 2012. (demo) [pdf,bib]

  • David Slater, Patrick Tague, Mingyan Li, and Radha Poovendran, "A Game-Theoretic Framework for Jamming Attacks and Mitigation in Commercial Aircraft Wireless Networks", AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Apr 2009. [pdf,bib]


Acknowledgements

This research is partially supported by CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University under grant DAAD19-02-1-0389 from the Army Research Office, by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1149582, and by an NDSEG fellowship. The views and conclusions contained in print and online are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either express or implied, of ARO, CMU, NSF, or the U.S. Government or any of its agencies.