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

一般来说，社会越来越依赖网络，特别是在日常生活的方方面面。随着Internet在全球范围内的扩展，传统上在独立网络上实现的服务越来越多地被Internet所包含，或者作为覆盖层，通过网关访问，或者作为遗留网络的替代品。随着对互联网服务的日益依赖和融合，网络服务中断的后果日益严重。该合作项目对大规模故障或攻击（如停电和自然灾害）以及智能对手对物理和协议基础设施的攻击的网络设计的基本理解进行了系统研究。这项工作的新颖之处在于，通过开发包含许多关键因素的网络拓扑生成、设计和分析方法，以及包含地质多样性的优化配方，采用了一种系统的方法来设计具有弹性和可生存的网络。方法学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，采用了一种新颖的方法来理解流量工程框架中大规模故障的弹性传输，以便应用程序可以利用网络中引入的结构多样性。更广泛的影响：该研究旨在对如何设计和部署弹性网络获得新的理解，重点是在大规模灾难和协同攻击造成的大规模中断中幸存下来。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，并有助于推动未来互联网的设计。这项研究将推动网络科学与工程的发展。主要研究人员将把所有结果，包括分析和模拟模型以及源代码，在公共维基上公开提供给研究社区。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生的研究，并努力从代表性不足的群体中招募学生。该项目的成果将有助于其他学生的教育，通过直接输入和课堂项目参与本科生和研究生水平的几门课程，包括堪萨斯大学和密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校的高级本科生和研究生关于通信网络科学和弹性和可生存网络的专题课程。

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.