TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring the resilience of the global internet infrastructure system
AU - Omer, Mayada
AU - Nilchiani, Roshanak
AU - Mostashari, Ali
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Resilience is the ability of the system to both absorb shock as well to recover rapidly from a disruption so that it can return back to its original service delivery levels or close to it. In the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, there has been an increasing interest in infrastructure resilience. The global submarine fiber optics cable network that serves as the backbone of the internet is a particularly critical infrastructure system that is vulnerable to both natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, we propose a model to measure the base resiliency of this global network, and explore the node to node and global resiliency of the network using existing data demand, capacity and flow information. The base resiliency of the system can be measured as the value delivery of the system after a disruption to the value deliver of the system before a disruption. We further demonstrate how the resiliency of the global internet infrastructure is enhanced through reducing the network vulnerability and increasing its adaptive capacity.
AB - Resilience is the ability of the system to both absorb shock as well to recover rapidly from a disruption so that it can return back to its original service delivery levels or close to it. In the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, there has been an increasing interest in infrastructure resilience. The global submarine fiber optics cable network that serves as the backbone of the internet is a particularly critical infrastructure system that is vulnerable to both natural and man-made disasters. In this paper, we propose a model to measure the base resiliency of this global network, and explore the node to node and global resiliency of the network using existing data demand, capacity and flow information. The base resiliency of the system can be measured as the value delivery of the system after a disruption to the value deliver of the system before a disruption. We further demonstrate how the resiliency of the global internet infrastructure is enhanced through reducing the network vulnerability and increasing its adaptive capacity.
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U2 - 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815790
DO - 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815790
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650099026
SN - 9781424434633
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings
SP - 156
EP - 162
BT - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference
Y2 - 23 March 2009 through 26 March 2009
ER -