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

社会在日常生活的方方面面越来越依赖网络，尤其是互联网。随着互联网在全球范围内覆盖范围的扩大，传统上在不同网络上实施的服务越来越多地被互联网所包含，要么作为覆盖、通过网关访问，要么作为传统网络的替代。随着互联网上服务的日益依赖和集成，网络服务中断的后果也越来越严重。这个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的研究。这项工作的新颖性是通过开发一种结合了许多关键因素的网络拓扑生成、设计和分析方法以及结合了地理多样性的优化公式来设计具有弹性和可生存性的网络的系统方法。方法论将评估现有网络的漏洞，并提出修改建议，以使它们更具弹性和生存能力。此外，采用一种新的方法来理解流量工程框架中针对大规模故障的弹性传输，以便应用程序能够利用网络中引入的结构多样性。广泛影响：该研究旨在对如何设计和部署弹性网络有新的理解，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能被应用于提高当前互联网及其部件的弹性，以更好地服务于社会，以及帮助推动未来互联网的设计。这项研究将推动网络科学和工程的最新发展。主要调查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。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，努力从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。项目成果将有助于其他学生的教育，直接参与本科生和研究生阶段的几门课程，包括在堪萨斯大学和密苏里-堪萨斯城大学开设的通信网络科学和复原力和可生存网络的高级本科生和研究生专题课程。

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.