Paradigms for Survivability of Cyber-Infrastructure Backbone Networks Against WMD Attacks
Abstract
This annual report summarizes the research accomplishments and outputs for one of the first known studies on multi-domain backbone network recovery under large-scale WMD attacks (funded by DTRA). Foremost, this research effort started out by addressing failure modeling and generated some novel models to capture network vulnerabilities to WMD attacks. Subsequently, a range of pre- and post-fault recovery mechanisms were developed and tested to help mitigate the effects of WMD stressor events. These solutions were designed to operate in realistic distributed routing settings with partial/inaccurate global network state and worked by augmented existing protocols with critical WMD vulnerability/risk information, e.g., risks, geographic threat regions, etc. Overall, the findings revealed the critical need (and benefit) of incorporating WMD-related stressor information into the overall network recovery process.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 18, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1060274
Entities
People
- Majeed M. Hayat
- Nasir Ghani
Organizations
- University of New Mexico