Research Article

Moving Target Defense Based on Adaptive Forwarding Path Migration for Securing the SCADA Network

Table 2

Variable notation.

NotationDefinition

Mutation period
Boolean variable whether routing node forwards the th data flow within mutation period
Forwarding path for mutation
Routing node for mutation
Marginal cost of forwarding path carrying data flow
Marginal cost of routing node carrying data flow
 Set of the routing nodes on mutation path excluding the routing nodes with the source and destination addresses
Distance from the current mutation node to the target routing node
Resource capacity of routing nodes and forwarding paths that ensures secure forwarding from source node to destination node
Maximum residual capacity from source node to destination node
Security coefficient
Network security capacity matrix from source node to destination node
Adjustment parameter