Quantitative evaluation of intrusion tolerant systems subject to DoS attacks via semi-Markov cost models

  • Authors:
  • Toshikazu Uemura;Tadashi Dohi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan;Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

  • Venue:
  • EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging direction in embedded and ubiquitous computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we quantitatively evaluate the security of intrusion tolerant systems with preventive maintenance subject to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. More specifically, we develop two semi-Markov cost models and describe the stochastic behavior of two intrusion tolerant systems with different preventive maintenance policies. The optimal preventive maintenance schedules are analytically derived to minimize the long-run average costs. We further perform the sensitivity analysis of the model parameters through numerical experiments. The results obtained here would be also useful to design ubiquitous systems subject to external malicious attacks.