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, research 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: Israel, South Korea

Projects

• Automated Resilience Verification and Resilience by Design (Applicants Boche, Holger ;  Schaefer, Rafael )
• CAREFUL – Complexity-aware symbolic fault analysis (Applicant Wehrle, Klaus )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Dressler, Falko )
• Cross-layer Resilience for Criticality-aware Wireless Networks (Applicants Rizk, Amr ;  Sezgin, Aydin )
• CRUSTmeetResPECT: Collective Resilient Unattended Smart Things (CRUST) meet Resilient Power-Constrained Embedded Communication Terminals (ResPECT) (Applicants Förster, Anna ;  Herfet, Thorsten ;  Wägemann, Peter )
• Integrated Sensing and Communication: Is This a Key Enabler for Resilience by Design in Future Communication Systems? (Applicants Boche, Holger ;  Schaefer, Rafael )
• Mastering Offloading and Correlated failures for resilient CommunicAtion networks (MOCCA) (Applicants Menth, Michael ;  Scheuermann, Björn )
• 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-2: Supporting Human Network Operators with ML - A Cognitive Approach (Applicants Hohlfeld, Oliver ;  Schmid, Stefan )
• ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication (Applicants Dressler, Falko ;  Wunder, Gerhard ;  Zubow, Anatolij )
• RESERVE: Resilient Hybrid Time-sensitive Networks (Applicants Dressler, Falko ;  Ergenc, Doganalp ;  Fischer, Mathias )
• Resilience by multi-connectivity network design in industrial IoT environments (Applicants Jorswieck, Eduard Axel ;  Wolf, Lars )
• Resilience of homomorphically encrypted cloud-computations against integrity attacks: Challenges and countermeasures (REACT) (Applicants Jager, Tibor ;  Schulze Darup, Moritz )
• Resilient Network Virtualization Architecture (Applicants Bhatotia, Pramod ;  Kaufmann, Antoine )
• Resilient Networking On the Move (Applicant Schmeink, Anke )
• 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 )
• Towards Network Resilience via Collective Counterfactual Explanations and Interventions (Applicant Maghsudi, Setareh )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler