Communications network utility as a function of node entropy

Author

McClintic, Jason Q. ; Tummala, Murali ; McEachen, John ; Scrofani, James

Author_Institution

Ship Repair Facility-Japan Regional Maintenance Center Detachment Sasebo, United States Navy, Sasebo, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Communications networks are valuable in proportion to the trustworthy information they carry. Network security policies are designed to classify nodes as trustworthy or not with some probability of error when the true status of each node is unknown. By making an analogy with the binary symmetric channel model, properties of networks with optimal security policies are derived. Additive and multiplicative utility models with and without aversion to misclassification risk are considered.

Keywords

entropy; social networking (online); telecommunication security; trusted computing; additive utility models; binary symmetric channel model; communications network utility; entropy; multiplicative utility models; network security policies; trustworthy information; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Entropy; Mathematical model; Optimization; Resource management; Security; access control; network security; optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), 2013 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Carrara, VIC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCS.2013.6723947

Filename

6723947