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Multiagent simulation of protection of information resources in internet

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An approach to investigation of mechanisms of protection of information resources on the Internet based on multiagent simulation is proposed. According to this approach, protection systems are considered as interacting teams of intellectual agents. The architecture and program implementation of the simulation environment providing a possibility of integration of simulation on the basis of discrete events, multiagent approach, and simulation of network packet exchange using different Internet protocols are presented. The developed environment provides a possibility of analysis of complex attack scenarios and defense mechanisms. Experimental results on investigation of cooperative mechanisms of defense from “Distributed Denial of Service” attacks are presented. The promising character of realization of these mechanisms for defense from distributed attacks on the Internet is demonstrated.

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  1. St. Petersburg Institute of Information Science and Automation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chetyrnadtsataya Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199179, Russia

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kotenko, A.V. Ulanov, 2007, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Teoriya i Sistemy Upravleniya, 2007, No. 5, pp. 74–88.

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Kotenko, I.V., Ulanov, A.V. Multiagent simulation of protection of information resources in internet. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. Int. 46, 741–755 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064230707050073

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