TC: Small: Collaborative Research: Mathematics of Infection Diffusion in Wireless Networks

TC：小型：协作研究：无线网络中感染扩散的数学

• 批准号: 0915655
• 负责人: Cristina Nita-Rotaru
• 金额: $ 13.15万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0915655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TC; Small; Collaborative; Research; Mathematics

Abstract The spread of malware has the potential to slow down or cripple wireless services. It poses a particularly inimical threat to a multitude of activities ranging across an entire spectrum from social interaction and gaming, to the flow of commerce and informational services, and, at the largest scale, to national security. Current countermeasures are mostly ad hoc and reactive in that they are used to fend off threats as they arrive or are preemptively discovered. This project aims to develop theoretical foundations for malware control and counter-measure design in wireless networks by drawing from epidemiological analogues in containment or quarantining strategies for limiting the spread of infectious diseases in human society, and game-theoretic models for interactions among opponents. Optimal power control quarantining strategies that curtail and regulate the spread of contagion by exploiting the broadcast property of the wireless medium will be designed, validated analytically and experimentally, and incorporated in networking protocols. This work will facilitate the development of new wireless paradigms where a plethora of devices need to securely communicate with each other and with other entities on the Internet. The research will not only draw from, but also contribute to, disparate disciplines such as epidemiology, game theory, optimal control and communication networks, and may eventually lead to new disciplines at the interfaces of these areas. Graduate and undergraduate students will be trained at the participating universities through supervision of doctoral and masters level dissertations and senior design projects.

摘要恶意软件的传播有可能减慢或削弱无线服务。它对从社交互动和游戏到商业和信息服务的流动，以及最大规模的国家安全的整个范围内的多种活动构成特别有害的威胁。目前的对策大多是临时性的和被动的，因为它们被用来抵御威胁，因为它们到达或被先发制人地发现。该项目旨在通过借鉴流行病学的类似物，为无线网络中的恶意软件控制和对策设计开发理论基础，以遏制或消除人类社会中传染病的传播，以及对手之间相互作用的博弈论模型。最佳的功率控制策略，通过利用无线媒体的广播属性，减少和调节传染病的传播，将被设计，验证分析和实验，并纳入网络协议。这项工作将促进新的无线范例的发展，其中大量的设备需要安全地相互通信，并与互联网上的其他实体。这项研究不仅将借鉴，但也有助于，不同的学科，如流行病学，博弈论，最佳控制和通信网络，并可能最终导致在这些领域的接口新的学科。研究生和本科生将在参与大学通过博士和硕士学位论文和高级设计项目的监督进行培训。