Large Scale Failure Resilience in Communication Networks
Background
Communications infrastructure makes the instant exchange of information possible and constitutes a vital part of the social infrastructure underpinning the daily lives and economic activities of people worldwide. With technological advances in recent years, the convenience and importance of the Internet and broadband have grown dramatically. As a result, communications infrastructure has become ever more fundamental to society not only as a means of providing traditional telephone service but also as a medium for delivery of all manner of information and services provided by government and businesses, etc. Thus, during a large-scale natural or man-made disaster, the failure of these communication networks has immediate and profound impacts.
Technology Overview
The research group led by Dr. Shahram Shah Heydari has developed a novel design for a software-defined networking connection management system. This system proactively monitors network connections in a backbone communication network, while also proactively protecting the network from failures that have resulted from a large-scale natural or man‐made disaster. As the system identifies early notification of potential large-scale damage to a wide geographic region, the system then estimates the probabilities of failure for network connections close to theregion of issue; it then re‐routes them from “red” (danger) zones to “green” (safe) zones.
The design of this system is novel in numerous ways:
• The system does not just react to failure but takes proactive measures to move network traffic to safer zones before they are disrupted.
• The system continuously evaluates and updates the probabilities of failures as the impact range of the disaster spreads.
Business Opportunity
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Inventors:
Mr. Shahram Shah-Heydari and Alireza Izaddoost
Publication:
United States Patent: 14/558,174