SPP 2378:  Resilience in Connected Worlds – Mastering Failures, Overload, Attacks, and the Unexpected

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 460954887

The goal of the Priority Programme is to disrupt fundamental limits of connected worlds by adding resilience as a core building block. Resilience is the ability of a system to provide and maintain an acceptable level of secure and safe service delivery, even in case of failure or compromise of some of its components, and also under completely unexpected situations. Machine learning-based solutions help making our complex network infrastructures more resilient but at the cost of reduced controllability - and with reduced abilities of experts to help in critical situations. Thus, we are faced with even more challenges in terms of resilience in critical network infrastructures. This priority programme aims at solving some of these challenges in a distributed research approach. This coordination project provides the necessary scientific environment by organizing regular research colloquia, summer schools, satellite workshops, and many more. Thus, an umbrella is created to foster collaboration in an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Emphasis will be on the support of talented early career researchers and gender diversification in engineering.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Belgium, Denmark, Sweden

Projects

• Automated Resilience Verification and Resilience by Design (Applicants Boche, Holger ;  Schaefer, Rafael )
• Collective Resilient Unattended Smart Things (CRUST) (Applicants Förster, Anna ;  Hollick, Matthias )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Dressler, Falko )
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework towards Automotive Resiliency and Survivability of Mission-Critical Networks against Volatile Resource Flow (Applicant Maghsudi, Setareh )
• NIC-Level Co-Processors for Resilient Coded Networking and Computation (Applicants Carle, Georg ;  Herkersdorf, Andreas )
• One Code to Rule Them All: A Coding-Based Solution for Resilient Future Communication Networks (Applicant Fitzek, Frank Hanns Paul )
• ReNO: Resilient Integration of Machine Learning for Enhanced Network Operation (Applicants Hohlfeld, Oliver ;  Schmid, Stefan )
• ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication (Applicants Dressler, Falko ;  Wunder, Gerhard ;  Zubow, Anatolij )
• Resilience by multi-connectivity network design in industrial IoT environments (Applicants Jorswieck, Eduard Axel ;  Wolf, Lars Christian )
• Resilience meets secure networked control (Applicants Jager, Tibor ;  Schulze Darup, Moritz )
• Resilient Communication with Programmable Hardware (Applicant Menth, Michael )
• Resilient Power-Constrained Embedded Communication Terminals (ResPECT) (Applicants Herfet, Thorsten ;  Schröder-Preikschat, Wolfgang )
• Resilient Safety-Critical Systems through Run-time Risk Assessment, Isolation, and Recovery (RESURREC) (Applicants Katzenbeisser, Stefan ;  Krauß, Christoph )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler