Optimal Dissemination Strategy of Security Patch Based on Differential Game in Social Network

Abstract

As one part of our life, there are many different types of security threats in social network, and the virtual assets of social networking users has become the attack target. It is of great importance to use security patches in social network to offset the security threats. However, the dissemination of security patches will bring challenges to energy consumptions and network resources which are limited in social networks. In this paper, we will construct a novel optimal dissemination strategy based on differential game to get the desired equilibrium between security risks and resource consumption. The optimal dissemination rate is obtained from the Nash equilibrium solution. Simulation analysis will be given to illustrate that resource consumption and virtual assets loss can be reduced based on the proposed scheme.