Redundancy, Diversity, and Connectivity to Achieve Multilevel Network Resilience, Survivability, and Disruption Tolerance (Invited Paper)

Abstract

Communication networks are constructed as a multilevel stack of infrastructure, protocols, and mechanisms: links and nodes, topology, routing paths, interconnected realms (ASs), end-to-end transport, and application interaction. The resilience of each one of these levels provides a foundation for the next level to achieve an overall goal of a resilient, survivable, disruption-tolerant, and dependable Future Internet. This paper concentrates on three critical resilience disciplines and the corresponding mechanisms to achieve multilevel resilience: redundancy for fault tolerance, diversity for survivability, and connectivity for disruption tolerance. Cross-layering and the mechanisms at each level are described, including richly connected topologies, multipath diverse routing, and disruption-tolerant end-to-end transport.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sponsor(s)

National Science Foundation (U.S.)
European Commission

Keywords and Phrases

Computer Aided Network Analysis; Internet; Reliability Analysis; Topology; Cross Layering; Cross-Layer Optimisation; Disruption Tolerance; Diverse Routing; End-To-End Transport; Future Internet; Multi-Level Networks; Performability; Redundancy

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1018-4864

Electronic OCLC #

43066372

Print OCLC #

27233357

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2014 Springer-Verlag, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2014

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