A study on effectiveness of network attack using analysis of eigenvalue

Abstract

Network communication is based on IP packets which are standardized by international organization. Therefore, network attack does not work without following the standardized manner. Hence, network attack also leaks adversaries’ information in their IP packets. In previous works, malicious topology maps are derived using these IP packet informations. And the effectiveness of network attack is evaluated by increment in eigenvalue of topology matrix (adjacency matrix and Laplacian matrix). However, previous method does not consider security level of each node. In this paper, we propose the solution to this problem and the improvement of previous method using total accessibility matrix. As a result, we confirm that the effectiveness of attack can be increased by attacking some nodes with low accessibility. We also found that the shape of topology map has big influence to the effectiveness.