Network Security: A Decision and Game-Theoretic Approach

Covering attack detection, malware response, algorithm and mechanism design, privacy, and risk management, this comprehensive work applies unique quantitative models derived from decision, control, and game theories to understanding diverse network security problems. It provides the reader with a system-level theoretical understanding of network security, and is essential reading for researchers interested in a quantitative approach to key incentive and resource allocation issues in the field. It also provides practitioners with an analytical foundation that is useful for formalising decision-making processes in network security.

About the Authors

Tansu Alpcan received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1998. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001 and 2006, respectively. His research involves applications of distributed decision making, game theory, and control to various security and resource allocation problems in complex and networked systems. He has received Fulbright scholarship in 1999 and best student paper award in IEEE Conf. on Control Applications in 2003. Tansu Alpcan has received Robert T. Chien Research Award from the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ross J. Martin Research Award from the UIUC College of Engineering in 2006. He was an associate editor for IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) in 2005 and has been TPC member of several conferences including IEEE Infocom 2007-2009. He was the co-chair of the workshop on Game Theory in Communication Networks (GameComm) 2008 and publicity chair of GameNets 2009. He is steering board member and general chair of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2010. He has received the best paper award in 2010 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Comm. and Inf. Sys. Security Symposium. Tansu Alpcan has been a member of IEEE since 1998. He is the (co-)author of more than 90 journal and conference articles. He has worked as a senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, between 2006 and 2009. Tansu Alpcan is currently assistant professor (Juniorprofessur) in Technical University Berlin while continuing his affiliation with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.

Tamer Baºar holds several academic positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including the titles of Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineeering. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Automatica, Series Editor for Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications, and Managing Editor of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG). He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC, Founding President of the ISDG and Current President of the AACC. Dr. Baºar has won a number of awards, including the Isaacs Award of ISDG, Bellman Control Heritage Award of the AACC, the Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE CSS and the Quazza Medal and Outstanding Service Award of IFAC.