This chapter introduces the survivability evaluation, especially on the corresponding evaluation criteria and modeling techniques. The content of this chapter includes an overview of the literature of computer system dependability or security evaluation techniques and their limitation. The concept of survivability and the techniques for modeling and evaluating survivability are introduced. In a...

Network survivability is becoming an important issue and a topical subject in WDM optical mesh networks. Many works have studied network survivability. However, few works have focused on survivability in multi-domain optical networks. This paper reviews the literature on survivability against failures in multi-domain optical networks. The main objective of this study is to evaluate and analyze ...

Survivability is an important network characteristic that provides a certain level of data delivery guarantees. The degree of survivability is usually governed by the data transfer mechanism or protocol that delivers data from source to destination. In this paper, we survey and discuss a variety of survivability issues, challenges and mechanisms in multihop wireless networks. Unlike some of the...

As the Internet and network technologies evolve, the IP over WDM solution has been envisioned as the most promising solution for the next generation Internet architecture. So survivability in IP/WDM networks becomes critical for the success of the next generation Internet architecture. Considerable research efforts have been dedicated to studying the survivability in IP/GMPLS and WDM network re...

Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) for Survivability is introduced as a system analysis methodology to improve the generation and evaluation of survivable alternatives during conceptual design. MATE for Survivability applies decision theory to the parametric modeling of thousands of design alternatives across representative distributions of disturbance environments. To improve the ge...

Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) for Survivability is introduced as a system analysis methodology to improve the generation and evaluation of survivable alternatives during conceptual design. MATE for Survivability applies decision theory to the parametric modeling of thousands of design alternatives across representative distributions of disturbance environments. To improve the ge...

In this paper we shall consider the Symmetrical Hierarchical Network (SHN) and show that SHN possesses poor properties of survivability. There are several methods for raising the survivability of SHN. Here we consider the effectiveness of radial reserve to raise the survivability of SHN taking account of destruction of the main radial edges, and radial reserve.

This paper presents a framework for providing survivability to group communications where part of the underlying trafsic layer infrastructure is connectionoriented. The framework is multi-layered to express the virtual overlays inherent to networked systems, describes survivability issues unique to group communications, and outlines tradeoffs between restoration techniques that can be extended ...

With the development of Grid technologies, scientists and engineers obtain large computing capability to execute large-scale workflow applications. However the Grids also bring a troublesome problem. In the dynamic, complex and unbounded Grid systems, malicious attacks and hardware faults, which are inevitable, can have a serious effect on the execution of applications. Therefore it is necessar...