NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Resilient Network Design for Massive Failures and Attacks

社会越来越依赖于网络，特别是互联网的日常生活的各个方面。 随着互联网在全球范围内的覆盖范围不断扩大，传统上在独立网络上实现的服务越来越多地被互联网所包含，或者作为覆盖层，通过网关接入，或者作为传统网络的替代品。 随着人们对互联网服务的依赖和整合程度的不断提高，网络服务中断带来的后果也越来越严重。本合作项目针对停电和自然灾害等大规模故障或攻击，以及智能对手对物理和协议基础设施的攻击，对网络设计的基本理解进行了系统研究。 这项工作的新奇是一个系统的方法来设计弹性和生存能力的网络，通过开发一个网络拓扑结构的生成，设计和分析方法，结合了一些关键因素，与优化配方，结合地理多样性。 方法将评估现有网络的脆弱性，并提出修改建议，使其更具弹性和生存能力。 此外，采取了一种新的方法来理解弹性传输的大规模故障的流量工程框架，使应用程序可以利用结构的多样性引入network.Broader影响：该研究的目的是获得新的理解如何设计和部署弹性网络，重点是生存的大规模中断，由于大规模的灾难和协同攻击。 具体的技术和机制可以应用于提高当前互联网及其部分的弹性，以更好地服务于社会，以及帮助推动未来互联网的设计。 该研究将推动网络科学与工程的发展。 主要研究人员将在公共维基上向研究社区公开所有结果，包括分析和模拟模型以及源代码。 研究结果将在会议、期刊论文和书籍中传播。该项目将支持两名博士的研究。努力从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。 该项目的结果将有助于其他学生的教育，在本科和研究生水平的几门课程的直接输入和类项目的参与，包括在堪萨斯大学和密苏里大学堪萨斯城的通信网络和弹性和生存网络的科学高年级本科生和研究生的专题课程。

Society increasingly depends on networks in general and the Internet in particular for just about every aspect of daily life. As the Internet increases its reach in global scope, services traditionally implemented on separate networks are increasingly subsumed by the Internet, either as overlays, via gatewayed access, or as a replacement for legacy networks. With this growing dependence on and integration of services in the Internet, come increasingly severe consequences of disruption in networked services.This collaborative project conducts systemic research on fundamental understanding on network design for massive failures or attacks such as power blackouts and natural disasters, as well as attacks against the physical, and protocol infrastructure by intelligent adversaries. The novelty of the work is a systemic approach to designing resilient and survivable networks by developing a network topology generation, design, and analysis methodology that incorporates a number of critical factors, with an optimization formulation that incorporates geodiversity. Methodologies will assess vulnerabilities of existing networks and to propose modifications to make them more resilient and survivable. Furthermore, a novel approach is taken to understand resilient transport for massive failures in a traffic-engineering framework so that applications can exploit the structural diversity introduced in the network.Broader Impact: The research aims to gain new understanding on how to design and deploy resilient networks, with emphasis on surviving massive disruptions as a result of large-scale disasters and coordinated attacks. The specific techniques and mechanisms may be applied to improve the resilience of the current Internet and its parts to better serve society, as well as to help drive the deign of the Future Internet. The research will advance the state-of-the art in network science and engineering. The principal investigators will make all results, including analytic and simulation models and source code, publicly available to the research community on a public wiki. Results will be disseminated in conferences, journal papers, and books. The project will support the research of two Ph.D. students with an effort to recruit students from under-represented groups. The project results will contribute to the education of other students, with direct input and class project participation in several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a senior undergraduate and graduate special topics courses on Science of Communication Networks and Resilient and Survivable Networks at both The University of Kansas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.