INTRUSION DETECTION IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORK USING INCOMPLETE NON-COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY

Wireless MESH network is a new pattern that allows the enhancement of existing wireless Network with multi hop connection. The medium for transmission of wireless network is air, which is unprotected medium therefore the challenging problem facing by wireless network is network security, some of network security problems such as eavesdropping of the wireless signal, jamming of the wireless channels, network intrusions. Here we are focusing on network intrusions detection. Intrusion is used to describe attacks from the outside hence intrusion detection is detection of outside attacks. We are using game theory, a study of how to mathematically determine the best strategy for given conditions in order to optimize the outcome for detecting intrusion in wireless mesh network. We represent the interaction between intruder and intrusion detection system (IDS) as the 2 × 2 signaling game which comes under non-cooperative game with incomplete information where one player is informed player i.e. intruder and other is uninformed player i.e. IDS, who is unaware of intruder source.