FCC Workshop on Network Resiliency

Workshop on Network Resiliency

Federal Communications Commission
February 6, 2013
10 am
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0205/DA-1...

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Opening Remarks

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Panel #1: Infrastructure and Measurements

Presentations
· John Heidemann (University of Southern California) Third-Party Measurement of Network Outages in Hurricane Sandy
· Alexis Kwasinski (The University of Texas at Austin) Lessons from Field Damage Assessments about Communication Networks Power Supply and Infrastructure Performance during Natural Disasters with a focus on Hurricane Sandy
· Emile Aben (RIPE Network Coordination Centre, The Netherlands); Alistair King (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), University of California, San Diego (UCSD)); Karyn Benson (CAIDA/UCSD); Young S. Hyun (CAIDA/UCSD); Alberto Dainotti (CAIDA/UCSD); Kimberly Claffy (CAIDA/UCSD) Lessons learned by "measuring" the Internet during/after the Sandy storm Kang-Won Lee (IBM Research, USA); Ho Yin Starsky Wong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) TSCOPE: Real-time Mobile Data Collection Technology Using Spatiotemporal Data Casting
· Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University) Lessons Learned from the 9/11 Attacks
· Doug Riecken (Columbia University) Smart grid

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Panel #2: Backbone and Wireline Access Resiliency

Presentations
· Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis) Network Adaptability from Disaster Disruptions and Cascading Failures
· Gil Zussman (Columbia University) The Vulnerability of Fiber Networks and Power Grids to Geographically Correlated Failures
· James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas and Lancaster University (UK)) Diverse Network Infrastructure for Resilience and Rapid Recovery from Large-Scale Disasters
· Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic Institute of New York University) Building Robust Cellular Networks
· Peter Vetter (Alcatel-Lucent) FTTH technology in the Aftermath of Sandy

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Panel #3: Wireless Networks, First Responders, Social Networks

Presentations
· Art Botterell (Carnegie Mellon University) Managing Interoperability: What Happens When We Succeed?
· Bob Iannucci (Carnegie Mellon University and RAI Laboratory, LLC) Survivable Social Network
· Theodore Rappaport (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and New York University) Loss of power and communication: A first-hand account
· John Thomas (Sprint) Minimizing the Risk of Communication Failure
· Roch Guérin (University of Pennsylvania) Leveraging Diversity for Resiliency
· Klaus Jacob (Columbia University) Climate projections
· Georgia Bullen (New America Foundation, Open Technology Institute) Case Study: Red Hook Initiative WiFi and Tidepools