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

在过去的几十年里，互联网经历了一个重大的变化，从一个主要面向学术研究的网络，变成了一个对现代社会特别是全球经济“至关重要”的信息物理基础设施。这种转换在很大程度上是偶然发生的，而不是通过设计发生的，并且假定在过去确保其健壮性的当前架构足以提供现在所期望的健壮性。要将今天的互联网重新架构为关键的基础设施，需要对它所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况，以及网络不断演变可能产生的威胁。与此同时，它必须探索包含必要的采用激励机制的增量部署路径。鉴于互联网和电网之间的密切相互依赖，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，都必须并行地考虑这两个系统，并告知彼此的进展。这项提议的努力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内和国际专家，共同制定一项变革性的研究议程，以重新构建未来互联网的生存能力，确保网络即使在出现大规模灾难性事件时也能履行其使命。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.