Network Adaptability from WMD Disruption and Cascading Failures

Abstract

To combat the rising risk of terrorist threats against our national interest and economic wellbeing - threats such as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) attacks (which could lead to a domino effect of catastrophic failures of power, energy, telecommunications, satellite, transportation, financial, and other critical infrastructures) - this project has developed novel methods to provide protection in our information and communications networks. Main focus was to prepare the network by accounting for risk of WMD attacks in different parts of the infrastructure, and recover from them. These techniques can be applied to military infrastructure to counteract multiple, correlated, and cascading failures induced by large-scale attacks.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2016
Accession Number
ADA631767

Entities

People

  • Biswanath Mukherjee

Organizations

  • University of California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Cloud Computing
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Data Centers
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Data Transmission
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Fiber-Optic Communications
  • Linear Programming
  • Mesh Networks
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Topology
  • Optical Communications
  • Streaming Media

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space