Double-Blind Reputation vs. Intelligent Fake VIP Attacks in Cloud-Assisted Interactions

Jerzy Konorski

doi:10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase.2018.00241

Double-Blind Reputation vs. Intelligent Fake VIP Attacks in Cloud-Assisted Interactions

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We consider a generic model of Client-Server interactions in the presence of Sender and Relay, conceptual agents acting on behalf of Client and Server, respectively, and modeling cloud service providers in the envisaged "QoS as a Service paradigm". Client generates objects which Sender tags with demanded QoS level, whereas Relay assigns the QoS level to be provided at Server. To verify an object's right to a QoS level, Relay detects its signature that neither Client nor Sender can modify. Since signature detection is costly Relay tends to occasionally skip it and trust an object; this prompts Sender to occasionally launch a Fake VIP attack, i.e., demand undue QoS level. In a Stackelberg game setting, Relay employs a trust strategy in the form of a double-blind reputation scheme so as to minimize the signature detection cost and undue QoS provision, anticipating a best-response Fake VIP attack strategy on the part of Sender. The paper addresses the question whether the double-blind reputation scheme, previously proved resilient to a probabilistic Fake VIP attack strategy, is equally resilient to more intelligent Sender behavior. Two intelligent attack strategies are proposed and analyzed using two-dimensional Markov chains.

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CLOUD COMPUTING, FAKE VIP ATTACK, REPUTATION, TRUST, STACKELBERG GAME

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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
Title of issue:: 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE) strony 1637 - 1641
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2018
Bibliographic description:: Konorski J.: Double-Blind Reputation vs. Intelligent Fake VIP Attacks in Cloud-Assisted Interactions// 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE)/ : , 2018, s.1637-1641
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase.2018.00241
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