Title :
Security games with decision and observation errors
Author :
Nguyen, K.C. ; Alpcan, T. ; Basar, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
fDate :
June 30 2010-July 2 2010
Abstract :
We study two-player security games which can be viewed as sequences of nonzero-sum matrix games played by an Attacker and a Defender. The evolution of the game is based on a stochastic fictitious play process. Players do not have access to each other´s payoff matrix. Each has to observe the other´s actions up to present and plays the action generated based on the best response to these observations. However, when the game is played over a communication network, there are several practical issues that need to be taken into account: First, the players may make random decision errors from time to time. Second, the players´ observations of each other´s previous actions may be incorrect. The players will try to compensate for these errors based on the information they have. We examine convergence property of the game in such scenarios, and establish convergence to the equilibrium point under some mild assumptions when both players are restricted to two actions.
Keywords :
convergence; game theory; security of data; convergence property; decision errors; nonzero-sum matrix games; observation errors; random decision errors; security games; Communication networks; Computer security; Convergence; Error correction; Game theory; Information security; Intrusion detection; Laboratories; Nash equilibrium; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference (ACC), 2010
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7426-4
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2010.5530868