Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A New Framework to Mitigate an Intelligent Backoff Attack

The recent advances in Deep Learning have a significant impact on the security of wireless networks, such as intelligent attackers which are able to successfully exploit a possibly unknown defense mechanism simply by interacting with it. Their capacity of adapting to standard defense mechanisms, such as statistical tests, makes them a significant threat. In this article, we develop two intelligent defense mechanisms using inverse reinforcement learning tools, that can be used to enhance the capabilities of current defense mechanisms. We test our proposal on a backoff attack setup against an intelligent attacker, obtaining very significant gains in the defense performance.