EU Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP), 7th Framework Call 2

ETH Zurich, CH
University of Lancaster, UK
Munich University of Technology, DE
France Telecom , FR
NEC Europe Ltd, UK
University of Passau, DE
Delft University of Technology, NL
University of Uppsala, S
University of Liege, BE

Sepember 2008 - August 2011

The ResumeNet project is centred around the question: "How does one approach the architecture, design, deployment, and operations of the Internet so that resilience emerges as a fundamental property?" Therefore, we propose a fundamentally new architectural approach to Internet resilience that is multilevel, systemic, and systematic.
The scientific objective is to develop an architecture for distributed systems that can provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various faults and challenges to normal operation. These challenges encompass unintentional misconfiguration or operational mistakes, large-scale natural disasters, malicious attacks from intelligent adversaries against the network, environmental challenges of mobility including weak channels and unpredictably long delay paths, and unusual but legitimate traffic load such as a flash crowds. The investigation will lead to a system prototype that will be vaildated in different scenarios: wireless mesh networks, opportunistic networks, and smart environments.

The challenge addressed in this project is to come up with an architecture that is inherently resilient and its validation in the defined test scenarios within the coming 3 years.

NEC leads the design of the architecture for network resilience and develops mechanisms for remediation and refinement. Balancing quality of service with resilience and observation of the remediation success to improve later remediation cycles are the focus of our research.

M. Schöller, P. Smith, C. Rohner, M. Karaliopoulos, A. Jabbar, J.P.G. Sterbenz, and D. Hutchison, On realising a strategy for resilience in opportunistic networks, Future Network and Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 16-18, 2010

P. Smith, A. Schaeffer-Filho, A. Ali, M. Schöller, N. Kheir, A. Mauthe and D. Hutchison, Strategies for network resilience: capitalising on policies, AIMS 2010, Zürich, Switzerland, 21-25 June 2010

J. Lessmann, M. Schöller, F. Zdarsky, and A. Banchs, Rope ladder routing: position-based multipath routing for wireless mesh networks, 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking, Montreal, Canada, 10-17 June 2010

Z. Fadlullah, T. Taleb, A. V. Vasilakos, M. Guizani, and N. Kato, DTRAB: combating against attacks on encrypted protocols through traffic-feature analysis, accepted, to appear in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2010

J.P.G. Sterbenz, D. Hutchison, E.G. Cetinkaya, A. Jabbar, J.P. Rohrer, M. Schöller, and P. Smith, Resilience and survivability in communication networks: strategies, principles, and survey of disciplines, accepted - to appear in Computer Networks (COMNET), Special Issue on Resilient and Survivable Networks, Elsevier, 2010

T. Taleb, and K. Ben Letaief, A cooperative diversity based handoff management scheme, IEEE Transactions On Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 2010

Z. Fadlullah, T. Taleb, N. Nasser, and N. Kato, Exploring the security requirements for QoS in combined wired and wireless networks, ACM IWCMC'09, Leipzig, Germany, June 21-24, 2009

M. Schoeller, T. Taleb, and S. Schmid, Neighborhoods as an abstraction for fish-eye state routing, IEEE PIMRC, Tokyo, Japan, September 13-16, 2009

T. Taleb, Z. Fadlullah, M. Schoeller, and K. Letaif, A connection stability aware mobility management scheme, IEEE WiMOB, Marrakech, Morocco, October 12-14, 2009

M. Schöller, et. al: Towards a Decision Engine for Self-Remediating Resilient Networks, Poster Session of IWSOS 2007, September, Lake District, UK.