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Cybersecurity Fusion: Leveraging Mafia Game Tactics and Reinforcement Learning for Botnet Detection

  • Amir Javadpour*
  • , Forough Ja'fari
  • , Tarik Taleb*
  • , Hamid Reza Ahmadi
  • , Chafika Benzaïd*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Oulu
  • ICTFicial OY
  • Sharif University of Technology
  • University of Tehran

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Abstract

Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a game of uncertainty between two teams, which aims to eliminate the other team's players from the game. The similarities between detecting the Mafia members in this game and botnet detection in a computer network motivate us to solve the botnet detection problem using this game's winning strategies. None of the state-of-the-art researches have used the Mafia game strategies to detect the network's malicious nodes. In this paper, we first propose the Mafia detection strategies, which are applied using linear relation and reinforcement learning techniques. We then use the suggested strategies in a network infected by the Mirai botnet, using Mininet, to evaluate the performance of botnet detection. The average results show that the suggested strategies are 11% more accurate than the existing ones for the Mafia game. Additionally, the true positive and true negative detection rates of a network modeled by the proposed Mafia game are 71% and 91%, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6005-6011
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798350310900
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2023 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 4 Dec 20238 Dec 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
ISSN (Print)2334-0983
ISSN (Electronic)2576-6813

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2023
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period4/12/238/12/23

Keywords

  • Botnet detection
  • Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
  • Mafia game
  • Network security
  • Reinforcement learning
  • cybersecurity

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