Resilient Society, Resilient Design

Risk based resilient network design

This paper presents a risk-based approach to resilient network design. The basic design problem considered is that given a working network and a fixed budget, how best to allocate the budget for deploying a survivability technique in different parts of the network based on managing the risk. The term risk measures two related quantities: the likelihood of failure or attack, and the amount of da...

Resilient Families Help Make Resilient Children

On Resilient and Exposure-Resilient Functions

Resilient and exposure-resilient functions are functions whose output appears random even if some portion of their input is either revealed or fixed. We explore an alternative way of characterizing these objects that ties them explicitly to the theory of randomness extractors and simplifies current proofs of basic results. We also describe the inclusions and separations governing the various cl...

Design of NBTI-resilient extensible processors

In this paper, we present techniques for mitigating the Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) effect on extensible processors. Firstly, the effect of NBTI on the extended instruction set architecture and the arithmetic logic unit of extensible processors is studied. The study includes modeling the circuit delay increase due to the NBTI and analyzing its impact on the processor lifetime. ...

Resilient network design: challenges and future directions

This paper highlights the complexity and challenges of providing reliable services in the evolving communications infrastructure. The hurdles in providing end-to-end availability guarantees are discussed and research problems identified. Avenues for overcoming some of the challenges examined are presented. This includes the use of a highly available network spine embedded in a physical network ...