Patrolling a pipeline

Alpern, Steve and Lidbetter, Thomas and Morton, Alec and Papadaki, Katerina; (2016) Patrolling a pipeline. In: Proceedings of GameSec 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, USA. (In Press)

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Abstract

A pipeline network can potentially be attacked at any point and at any time, but such an attack takes a known length of time. To counter this, a Patroller moves around the network at unit speed, hoping to intercept the attack while it is being carried out. This is a zero sum game between the mobile Patroller and the Attacker, which we analyze and solve in certain cases.