Evaluation of network resilience, survivability, and disruption tolerance: analysis, topology generation, simulation, and experimentation - Invited paper

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and survivability of future networks. We define resilience as the ability of the network to provide desired service even when challenged by attacks, large-scale disasters, and other failures. This paper describes a comprehensive methodology to evaluate network resilience using a combination of topology generation, analytical, simulation, and experimental emulation techniques with the goal of improving the resilience and survivability of the Future Internet. This research was supported in part by the the National Science Foundation FIND (Future Internet Design) Program under grant CNS-0626918 (Postmodern Internet Architecture), by NSF grant CNS-1050226 (Multilayer Network Resilience Analysis and Experimentation on GENI), and the European Commission FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation Programme) under grant FP7-224619 (ResumeNet). James P.G. Sterbenz Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA http://www.ittc.ku.edu/resilinets [email protected], +1 785 864 7890 Computing Department, InfoLab21 Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, [email protected] Egemen K. Çetinkaya [email protected] Mahmood A. Hameed [email protected] Abdul Jabbar [email protected] Shi Qian [email protected] Justin P. Rohrer [email protected]