Resilience and Survivability in Communication Networks: Strategies, Principles, and Survey of Disciplines

Abstract

The Internet has become essential to all aspects of modern life, and thus the consequences of network disruption have become increasingly severe. It is widely recognised that the Internet is not sufficiently resilient, survivable, and dependable, and that significant research, development, and engineering is necessary to improve the situation. This paper provides an architectural framework for resilience and survivability in communication networks and provides a survey of the disciplines that resilience encompasses, along with significant past failures of the network infrastructure. A resilience strategy is presented to defend against, detect, and remediate challenges, a set of principles for designing resilient networks is presented, and techniques are described to analyse network resilience.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sponsor(s)

National Science Foundation (U.S.)
European Commission

Keywords and Phrases

Communication Networks; Critical Infrastructure; Defense; Disruption Tolerance; Future Internet; Future Internet Resilience; Metrics; Performability; Resilience Metrics; Communication; Computer System Recovery; Fault Detection; Internet; Pollution; Public Works; Quality Assurance; Remediation; Restoration; Surveys; Fault Tolerance

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1389-1286

Electronic OCLC #

42202506

Print OCLC #

40811573

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2010 Elsevier, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2010

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