Conference: Towards Re-architecting Today's Internet for Survivability

在过去几十年里，互联网经历了重大变化，从主要是学术界的研究网络，变成了对整个现代社会、特别是对全球经济“至关重要”的网络-物理基础设施。这种转变主要是偶然发生的，而不是有意为之，并假设在过去确保其鲁棒性的当前架构将足以提供现在期望从其获得的鲁棒性。要将当今的互联网设计为关键基础设施，需要对它所基于的体系结构原则有一个新的理解，需要重新评估可能的场景这可能会挑战网络的基本功能，以及网络不断发展可能带来的威胁。与此同时，它必须探索增量部署的路径，其中包含必要的采用激励措施。考虑到互联网和电网的密切相互依赖性，无论是对潜在威胁的分析，还是为提高生存能力而进行的任何重新设计，都必须同时考虑两个系统，并通报彼此的进展。这项拟议工作的成功取决于广泛的跨学科科学家团队之间的密切合作，包括网络研究人员、电力/智能电网专家、经济学家、和社会科学研究人员。研讨会的目标是召集一批国家和国际专家，制定一个变革性的研究议程，以重新构建明天的互联网，提高生存能力，确保网络即使在存在大的情况下也能够履行其使命-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Over the past decades, the Internet has undergone a major change from being primarily a research-oriented network for academics to becoming a cyber-physical infrastructure “critical” for modern society in general and the global economy in particular. This transformation has occurred largely by happenstance, rather than by design, and under the assumption that the current architecture that has ensured its robustness in the past would be sufficient to provide the robustness now expected from it. To re-architect today’s Internet as critical infrastructure requires a new understanding of the architectural principles on which it should be based on. It requires a reassessment of the possible scenarios that can challenge the network’s basic functioning and the threats that can arise as a result of the network’s constant evolution. At the same time, it must explore paths for incremental deployment that embed the necessary incentives for adoption. Given the close interdependence of the Internet and the power grid, both the analysis of potential threats, as well as any re-design to enhance survivability, must consider both systems in parallel and inform each other’s progress.The success of this proposed effort depends on close collaborations among a broad and interdisciplinary team of scientists, including networking researchers, power/smart grid experts, economists, and social science researchers. The goal of the workshop is to bring together an initial group of national and international experts to develop a transformative research agenda towards re-architecting tomorrow’s Internet for survivability, ensuring that the network is able to fulfill its mission even in the presence of large-scale catastrophic events.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.