4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Research Article

Towards the Simulation of Energy-Efficient Resilience Management

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245564,
        author={Cathryn Peoples and Gerard Parr and Alberto Schaeffer-Filho and Andreas Mauthe},
        title={Towards the Simulation of Energy-Efficient Resilience Management},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
        year={2012},
        month={4},
        keywords={Network simulation policy management adaptation energy-awareness resilience anomaly detection},
        doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245564}
    }
    
  • Cathryn Peoples
    Gerard Parr
    Alberto Schaeffer-Filho
    Andreas Mauthe
    Year: 2012
    Towards the Simulation of Energy-Efficient Resilience Management
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245564
Cathryn Peoples1,*, Gerard Parr1, Alberto Schaeffer-Filho2, Andreas Mauthe2
  • 1: University of Ulster
  • 2: Lancaster University
*Contact email: C.Peoples@ulster.ac.uk

Abstract

Energy-awareness and resilience are becoming increasingly important in network research. So far, they have been mainly considered independently from each other, but it has become clear that there are important interdependencies. Resilience should be achieved in a manner which is energy-efficient, and energy-efficiency objectives should respect the networks' need to be prepared to observe and react against disruptive activity. Meeting these complementary and sometimes conflicting research objectives demands novel strategies to support energy-efficient resilience management. However, the effective evaluation of cross-cutting energy and resilience management aspects is difficult to achieve using the tool support currently available. In this paper, we explore a range of network simulation environments and assess their ability to meet our energy and resilience modelling objectives as a function of their technical capabilities. Furthermore, ways in which these tools can be extended based on previous related implementations are also considered.