Abstract:
Today, resource allocation in defender-attacker game models is getting more attention from the research
community. For the defensive side players, allocating resources effectively and appropriately
is essential to maintain the winning position against the attacking side. It can be possible by making
the best response to the attack, i.e., by defining the most effective defensive strategy. This present
work develops one defender - multiple attackers game model to determine the defensive strategy
based on the Nash equilibrium and Stackelberg leadership equilibrium solutions of one defendertwo
attackers game model. Both game models are designed and studied in two scenarios: simultaneous
and sequential modes. The budget constraints are analyzed for both modes, and the simulation
results of the mathematical models are also presented. The optimal resource allocation defensive
algorithm is developed considering a network value of customers and players’ budget constraints.
Its main objective function is defined as the maximization of a novel normperformance metric. This
algorithm is evaluated within the proposed game models.