Professor Peter Stavroulakis

SURVIVABILITY QUANTIFICATION FOR WIRELESS CRITICAL NETWORKS WITH APPLICATIONS TO ELECTRONIC WARFARE

Abstract

The problem of survivability of wireless critical network systems has been around for a long time. Due to the fact that as a concept survivability consists of various components such as reliability, availability, fault tolerance and security each one of them could be of major importance and satisfy the requirements of a specific problem. As a whole Survivability did not receive the attention it deserves as far as it concerns its quantification especially for problem we encounter in electronic warfare situations. This speech, for the first time, will attempt to deal effectively with the problem of survivability quantification by breaking the critical network system under consideration to a seven layer model and then investigate quantitatively which component of survivability applies to each layer in order to establish an overall quantifiable survivable system.

Outline

• Introduction
• Definition of survivability within the context of critical network systems
• Necessity of survivability in an information based world
• Autonomy and quantifiability of survivability.
• Is survivability an autonomous study tool?
• Components of survivability
• Bounded and unbounded critical networks
• Seven layer model of critical network systems
• Requirements of survivable systems
• Survivability as a measure of quality of service
• Applications to multimedia systems

SHORT CV

After a successful career at Bell Laboratories, N.J, Oakland University, Michigan and ATT, Peter Stavroulakis joined the Technical University of Crete (TUC) as a Full Professor of ECE. At TUC, he established a Research Institute to train Ph.Ds. He was a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on CIS and awarded by IEEE the BEST READINGS status for four of his publications on CIS including his HANDBOOK on CIS. Presented various TUTORIALS on CIS in all major IEEE conference such as GLOBECOM, ICC and VTC. Received numerous International invitations to deliver short courses on CIS and keynote speeches.

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