ResiliNets

The resilience strategy deliverable from the EU-funded ResumeNet project is now available.  It describes a systematic approach to providing network and service resilience, and reflects activities in the technical work packages of the project.  Included is an introduction to the multilevel resilience metrics framework developed on the project, the management architecture we propose, and our approach to challenge detection.  In many ways, the deliverable is an extension of our recent IEEE Communications Magazine article on a systematic approach to network resilience.  The deliverable will be extended at the end of the year with outcomes from the project’s experimentation phase.

Within the IU-ATC project, a survey has been carried out amongst network and security experts about the perceived future and emerging threats to next generation networks. An interim report has been published and a further analysis is ongoing. The initial results also featured in a press release published in Lancaster University’s website.

An article describing the ResumeNet project’s systematic approach to network resilience is now available in the July issue of IEEE Communications Magazine.  The article summarises the resilience framework developed in the project, its application to a resilience architecture for dynamic network adaptation and a concrete case study being investigated in the project.  Head over to our Publications to get more details.

Dr Christian Doerr, from TU Delft, discusses the importance of resilience metrics in a short film prepared at an ENISA workshop held in Brussels, Belgium, on 1st December 2010.  The research he discusses is being carried out on the EU-funded ResumeNet project.  See also reports from ENISA on resilience metrics; the contents of which were influenced by research from the project.

Participants in the EU-funded ResumeNet project, including members of the resilience group at Lancaster, are organising a workshop on network resilience that aims to bridge the gap between research in the area and current practice.  This will be held alongside IEEE SRDS 2011.  For more information, including the CfP, see the workshop website.  The paper submission deadline has been extended to the 27th June, 2011.

Welcome to the new pages on network resilience from the team at Lancaster University!  As you’ll see, the pages are under construction, so please bear with us while we get things up and running.  Thanks!