Incentive mechanism for cooperative intrusion detection: An evolutionary game approach

Abstract

In Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, cooperative intrusion detection is efficient and scalable to massively parallel attacks. However, due to concerns of privacy leak-age and resource costs, if without enough incentives, most mobile nodes are often selfish and disinterested in helping others to detect an intrusion event, thus an ef-ficient incentive mechanism is required. In this paper, we formulate the incentive mechanism for cooperative intrusion detection as an evolutionary game and achieve an optimal solution to help nodes decide whether to participate in detec-tion or not. Our proposed mechanism can deal with the problems that cooperative nodes do not own complete knowledge about other nodes. We develop a game algorithm to maximize nodes utility. Simulations demonstrate that our strategy can efficiently incentivize potential nodes to cooperate.