NSF Workshop: Towards Re-architecting Today’s Internet for Survivability

Abstract

This workshop launched a transformative research agenda to re-architect the Internet for survivability in the face of modern threats.

Date
Nov 28, 2023 8:00 AM — Nov 29, 2023 5:00 PM
Location
Orrington Hotel
1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

This NSF-funded workshop brought together experts in networking, smart grid, economics, and social sciences to explore new Internet architectures that can withstand large-scale disruptions and ensure survivability.

Read the summary paper: Towards Re-architecting the Internet for Survivability

Day 1 – November 28, 2023

  • 09:00 AM – Opening (Bustamante & Willinger)
  • 09:15 AM – Reconsidering Internet Architecture (John Doyle + Discussants)
  • 11:00 AM – Threats to Survivability (Stefan Savage)
  • 11:45 AM – Powergrid and Internet (Gross, Low, Tong)
  • 02:00 PM – Control & Learning (James Anderson)
  • 03:00 PM – Resilience Engineering (Alderson, Woods, Allspaw)
  • 04:00 PM – Public/Private Sector (Schulzrinne, Fayed)
  • 05:00 PM – Wrap-up
  • 06:30 PM – Dinner

Day 2 – November 29, 2023

  • 09:00 AM – Threats (Durumeric, Savage, Schulman)
  • 10:15 AM – Control and Learning (Nik Matni)
  • 11:30 AM – Resilience Engineering (Alderson, Allspaw, Woods, Hochstein, Perkov)
  • 02:00 PM – Powergrid + Internet (Low, Gross, Paganini, Taylor, Xie)
  • 03:15 PM – Public & Private Sector Perspective (Montgomery, Forscey, Hu)
  • 04:30 PM – Wrap-up and next steps

Confirmed Participants (as of 11/21/2023)

  • David Alderson — Naval Postgraduate School
  • John Allspaw — Adaptive Capacity Labs
  • Luis Amaral — Northwestern U.
  • James Anderson — Columbia U.
  • Todd Arnold — West Point
  • Paul Barford — U. Wisconsin-Madison
  • Pete Beckman — Argonne/Northwestern
  • Zachary Bischof — Georgia Tech
  • Fabián E. Bustamante — Northwestern U.
  • Alberto Dainotti — Georgia Tech
  • John Doyle — Caltech
  • Zakir Durumeric — Stanford U.
  • Marwan Fayed — Cloudflare
  • David Forscey — JCDC
  • Ramesh Govindan — USC
  • Dominic Gross — U. of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Lorin Hochstein — Coupang
  • Yih-Chun Hu — UIUC
  • Igor Kadota — Northwestern U.
  • Steven Low — Caltech
  • Z. Morley Mao — U. of Michigan
  • Nikolai Matni — U. of Pennsylvania
  • Deepankar Medhi — NSF
  • Doug Montgomery — NIST
  • Fernando Paganini — Universidad ORT Uruguay
  • Zoran Perkov — Super Stealth Startup Inc.
  • Ahmed Saeed — Georgia Tech
  • Stefan Savage — UCSD
  • Aaron Schulman — UCSD
  • Henning Schulzrinne — Columbia U.
  • Yixin Sun — U. of Virginia
  • Joshua Taylor — U. of Toronto
  • Cecilia Testart — Georgia Tech
  • Lang Tong — Cornell U.
  • Ermin Wei — Northwestern U.
  • Walter Willinger — NIKSUN
  • David Woods — Ohio State U.
  • Le Xie — Texas A&M University
  • Lixia Zhang — UCLA

Workshop Proposal


Pre-workshop Perspectives


Resilience Engineering — Additional Material


Workshop Presentations

Overviews


Session: Threats to Internet Survivability


Session: Control and Learning

  • Nik Matni

Session: Resilience Engineering


Session: Powergrid and Internet


Session: Public & Private Sector

Venue

The workshop was held at the Hilton Orrington Hotel, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL.

Hotel Information

We reserved a block of rooms at $129/night, available until Nov 10.
Hotel Reservation

Getting to Evanston

Details at Northwestern visitor info

Reimbursement

Submit your expenses using this Reimbursement Form

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