Resilient and survivable networks

This poster discusses methods to characterize the resilience of networks to a number of challenges and attacks, with the goal of developing quantifiable metrics to determine the degree of the network's resilience. We formalize resilience as points in a two-dimensional state space quantifying network characteristics, from which network service performance parameters can be derived. One dimension represents the network as normally operating, partially degraded, or severely degraded. The other dimension represents network service as acceptable, impaired, or unacceptable. Our goal is to initially understand how to characterize network resilience, and ultimately how to guide network design and engineering toward increased resilience.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CN
• Authors: Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison, James P. G. Sterbenz
• Keywords: CN 2010, Network Service, Resilience, Space Quantifying Network