MTD-Playground: An Attacker-Aware Evaluation Framework for Network Moving Target Defense

arXiv:2607.12199 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-07-13 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-13

Updated: 2026-08-28

Project page: https://containernet.github.io

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Moving Target Defense — 29× in this paper
Benchmarking — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Attack Success Rate — 8× in this paper
Reinforcement Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Attack Completion Time — 6× in this paper
Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Reconnaissance Accuracy — 5× in this paper
Fingerprinting — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Software-Defined Networking — 4× in this paper
Attack Disruption Index — 3× in this paper
Attack Success Rate (ASR) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Operational Cost Index — 3× in this paper
International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience — 2× in this paper
Remote Code Execution — 2× in this paper
Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Center for Advanced Computer Studies — 1× in this paper
Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

MTDSense: AI-Based Fingerprinting of Moving Target Defense Techniques in Software-Defined Networking

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