Cloud-Based Malware Detection Game for Mobile Devices with Offloading
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- 27 March 2017
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Vol. 16 (10), 2742-2750
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2017.2687918
Abstract
As accurate malware detection on mobile devices requires fast process of a large number of application traces, cloud-based malware detection can utilize the data sharing and powerful computational resources of security servers to improve the detection performance. In this paper, we investigate the cloud-based malware detection game, in which mobile devices offload their application traces to security servers via base stations or access points in dynamic networks. We derive the Nash equilibrium (NE) of the static malware detection game and present the existence condition of the NE, showing how mobile devices share their application traces at the security server to improve the detection accuracy, and compete for the limited radio bandwidth, the computational and communication resources of the server. We design a malware detection scheme with Q-learning for a mobile device to derive the optimal offloading rate without knowing the trace generation and the radio bandwidth model of other mobile devices. The detection performance is further improved with the Dyna architecture, in which a mobile device learns from the hypothetical experience to increase its convergence rate. We also design a post-decision state learning-based scheme that utilizes the known radio channel model to accelerate the reinforcement learning process in the malware detection. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes improve the detection accuracy, reduce the detection delay, and increase the utility of a mobile device in the dynamic malware detection game, compared with the benchmark strategy.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61671396, 91638204)
- CCF (2016-010)
- NPRP (#8-408-2-172)
- Qatar National Research Fund
- Qatar Foundation
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