Utility-Based Network Adversary Model

The classic adversarial model is based on probabilistic analysis and queuing theory, which usually examine the stability of queuing networks and policies when the arrival process is adversarial. But widely used networks, such as Internet, are layered architecture, the adversarial model of queuing networks can not meet the needs of networks of layered architecture. This drives us to provide a new adversarial model, which deploys utility to measure the performance of networks and regards adversarial attacks as a type of denial of service attacks to study the stability and the performance.