Optimal serverless networks attacks, complexity and some approximate algorithms

A network attack is a set of network elements that are disabled by an adversary. The goal for the attack is to produce the most possible damage to the network in terms of network connectivity by disabling the least possible number of network elements. We show that the problem of finding the optimal...

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Autores: Aguirre Maeso, Carlos, Huerta, Ramón, Tsimring, Lev
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/664594
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/664594
https://dx.doi.org/10.3217/jucs-015-14-2747
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Network connectivity
Optimal attack problem
NP-Complete
Attack strategies
Informática
Descripción
Sumario:A network attack is a set of network elements that are disabled by an adversary. The goal for the attack is to produce the most possible damage to the network in terms of network connectivity by disabling the least possible number of network elements. We show that the problem of finding the optimal attack in a serverless network is NP-Complete even when only edges or nodes are considered for disabling. We study a node attack policy with polynomial complexity based on shorter paths and show that this attack policy outperforms in most cases classical attacks policies such as random attack or maximum degree attack. We also study the behavior of different network topologies under these attack policies.