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

在过去的几十年里，互联网经历了重大的变化，从最初的以研究为导向的学术网络，转变为对整个现代社会，特别是全球经济“至关重要”的网络物理基础设施。这种转变在很大程度上是偶然发生的，而不是设计的，并假设目前的架构在过去确保了其健壮性，将足以提供现在预期的健壮性。要将今天的互联网重新设计为关键基础设施，需要对其应基于的架构原则有一个新的理解。它需要重新评估可能挑战网络基本功能的情景，以及网络不断演变可能产生的威胁。与此同时，它必须探索渐进部署的途径，嵌入必要的采用激励措施。考虑到互联网和电网的紧密相互依存关系，对潜在威胁的分析，以及任何提高生存能力的重新设计，都必须并行考虑这两个系统，并告知对方的进展。这项拟议工作的成功有赖于广泛的跨学科科学家团队的密切合作，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。研讨会的目标是将一批国内和国际专家聚集在一起，制定一项变革性的研究议程，以重新构建明天的互联网以实现生存能力，确保网络即使在发生大规模灾难事件时也能够履行其使命。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.