Evanston, IL | November 28-29, 2023
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Over the past decades, the Internet has undergone a major change from being primarily a research-oriented network for academics to becoming a cyber-physical infrastructure “critical” for modern society in general and the global economy in particular. This transformation has occurred largely by happenstance, rather than by design, and under the assumption that the current architecture that has ensured its robustness in the past would be sufficient to provide the robustness now expected from it. We argue that this organically-grown architecture of today’s Internet cannot live up to this new role humanity has assigned it or withstand the types of threats that it now faces. To re-architect today’s Internet as critical infrastructure requires a new understanding of the architectural principles on which it should be based. It demands a reassessment of the possible scenarios that can challenge the network’s basic functioning and the threats that can arise as a result of the network’s constant evolution. At the same time, it must explore paths for incremental deployment that embed the necessary incentives for adoption. Given the expected tight coupling of tomorrow’s Internet with the emerging smart grid, both the analysis of potential threats, as well as any re-design to enhance survivability, must consider both systems in parallel and inform each other’s progress.
The success of this proposed ambitious effort depends on close collaborations among a broad and interdisciplinary team of scientists, including networking researchers, power/smart grid experts, economists, and social science researchers. The goal of the workshop is to bring together an initial group of national and international experts to sketch and start implementing a transformative research agenda for solving one of our community’s most challenging yet important tasks: the re-architecting tomorrow’s Internet for “survivability”, ensuring that the network is able to fulfill its mission even in the presence of large-scale catastrophic events.
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Organizers
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- Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern U.
- Walter Willinger, NIKSUN, Inc
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Co-organizers
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- David Alderson, NPS
- John Doyle, Caltech
- Steven Low, Caltech
- Stefan Savage, UCSD
- Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia U.
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November 28, 2023 | |
08:00 AM-09:00 AM | Breakfast |
09:00 AM-09:15 AM | Opening & organization Fabián E. Bustamante and Walter Willinger |
09:15 AM-10:30 AM | Reconsidering Internet Architecture Speaker: John Doyle Discussants: Ramesh Govindan, Fernando Paganini, Lixia Zhang |
10:30 AM-11:00 AM | Break |
11:00 AM-11:45 AM | Overview talk: Threats to Internet Survivability Speaker: Stefan Savage |
11:45 AM-12:30 AM | Overview talk: Powergrid and Internet Speaker: Dominic Gross, Steven Low, Lang Tong |
12:30 AM-02:00 PM | Lunch |
02:00 PM-02:45 PM | Overview talk: Control and Learning Speaker: James Anderson |
02:45 PM-03:30 PM | Overview talk: Resilience Engineering Speaker: David Alderson, John Allspaw, and David Woods |
03:30 PM-04:00 PM | Break |
04:00 PM-05:00 PM | Overview talk: Public & Private Sector Perspective Speaker: Henning Schulzrinne and Marwan Fayed |
05:00 PM-05:30 PM | Wrap-up |
06:30 PM-09:00 PM | Dinner |
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November 29, 2023 | |
08:00 AM-09:00 AM | Breakfast |
09:00 AM-10:15 AM | Session on Threats to Internet Survivability Organizer: Stefan Savage Presenters/Discussants include: Zakir Durumeric, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman |
10:15 AM-11:30 AM | Session on Control and Learning Presenter: Nik Matni |
11:45 AM-01:00 PM | Session on Resilience Engineering Organizer: David Alderson Presenters/Discussants: John Allspaw, Lorin Hochstein, Zoran Perkov, David Woods |
01:00 PM-02:00 PM | Lunch |
02:00 PM-03:15 PM | Session on Powergrid and Internet Organizer: Steven Low Presenters/Discussants: Dominic Gross, Fernando Paganini, Joshua Taylor, Lang Tong, Le Xie |
03:15 PM-04:30 PM | Session on Public & Private Sector Perspective Organizers: Henning Schulzrinne and Marwan Fayed Presenters/Discussants include: Doug Montgomery, David Forscey, Yih-Chun Hu |
04:30 PM-05:00 PM | Wrap-up and next steps |
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Venue
The workshop will be held at the Orrington Hotel.
The hotel is located at 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, Illinois.
Hotel Information
We have a block of reserved rooms at the Orrington Hotel at a rate of $129 per night. The block will remain open until November 10th. Please use the following link to place your reservation at the
Hotel reservation.
Getting to Evanston
If you are booking your flight and would like to be reimbursed, please make sure to travel by US-Flag Air carriers, if available.
Workshop Reimbursement Form
Please fill in the following form for reimbursement.
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Confirmed Participants (as of 11/21/23)
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Name | Affiliation |
Dave 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 National Labs/Northwestern U. |
Zachary Bischof | Georgia Tech |
Fabián E. Bustamante | Northwestern U. |
Alberto Dainotti | Georgia Tech |
John Doyle | Cal Tech |
Zakir Durumeric | Stanford U. |
Marwan Fayed | Cloudlfare |
David Forscey | Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative |
Ramesh Govindan | University of Souther California |
Dominic Gross | U. of Wisconsin-Madison |
Lorin Hochstein | Coupang |
Yih-Chun Hu | UIUC |
Igor Kadota | Northwestern U. |
Steven Low | Cal Tech |
Z. Morley Mao | U. of Michigan |
Nikolai Matni | U. of Pennsylvania |
Deepankar Medhi | NSF |
Douglas 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 Toronoto |
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 |
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Workshop Proposal
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Pre-workshop Perspectives
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- Internet Resilience and Survivability: Towards an Internet Architecture for the Modern World, F.E. Bustamante and W. Willinger, Nov. 2023.
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Resilience Engineering — Additional Material
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- Progress Toward Resilient Infrastructures: Are we falling behind the pace of events and changing threats?, D.D. Woods and D.L. Alderson, Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, 2(2):5-18, 2022
- SNAFUcatchers Workshop on Coping with Complexity, D.D. Woods, ed, (2017), March 14-16, 2017.
- Short Bios
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Workshop presentations
Overviews
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- Reconsidering Internet Architecture Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4,
John Doyle - Thrive, Not Just Survive: Engineering Resilience in Content Provider Networks,
Ramesh Govindan - Reconsidering Internet Architecture,
Fernando Paganini - Internet Architecture – The definition?,
Lixia Zhang - Overview talk: Threats to Internet Survivability,
Stefan Savage - Overview talk: Powergrid and Internet,
Dominic Gross, Steven Low, Lang Tong - Overview talk: Control and Learning,
James Anderson - Overview talk: Resilience Engineering,
David Alderson, John Allspaw, and David Woods - Overview talk: Public & Private Sector Perspective
Henning Schulzrinne - Aaron Schulman
- Trust and transparency,
Z. Durumeric - Stefan Savage
- Nik Matni
- A Resilience Engineering Perspective,
David Alderson, John Allspaw, and David Woods - Decentralization/centralization in controlling the Internet and the power grid,
Fernando Paganini - Sending information with converters,
Josh_Taylor - Interoperability of Internet and Power Systems architectures and control paradigms,
Dominic Gross - The role of standardization,
Doug Montgomery
Session on Threats to Internet Survivability
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Session on Control and Learning
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Session on Resilience Engineering
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Session on Powergrid and Internet
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Session on Public & Private Sector Perspective
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