Survivability
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[edit] Engineering
In engineering, survivability is the quantified ability of a system, subsystem, equipment, process, or procedure to continue to function during and after a natural or man-made disturbance; e.g. nuclear electromagnetic pulse from the detonation of a nuclear weapon.
For a given application, survivability must be qualified by specifying the range of conditions over which the entity will survive, the minimum acceptable level or post-disturbance functionality, and the maximum acceptable outage duration.[1]
[edit] Network
"The capability of a system to fulfill its mission, in a timely manner, in the presence of threats such as attacks or large-scale natural disasters. Survivability is a subset of resilience."[2][3]
“The capability of a system to fulfill its mission, in a timely manner, in the presence of attacks, failures, or accidents.”[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188
- ^ The ResiliNets Research Initiative definition of survivability.
- ^ Abdul Jabbar Mohammad, David Hutchison, and James P.G. Sterbenz "Poster: Towards Quantifying Metrics for Resilient and Survivable Networks", 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2006), Santa Barbara, California, USA, November 2006
- ^ R. J. Ellison, D. A. Fisher, R. C. Linger, H. F. Lipson, T. Longstaff, N. R. Mead, Survivable Network Systems: An Emerging Discipline, Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute Technical Report CMU/SEI-97-TR-013, 1997 revised 1999
[edit] External Links
- The ResiliNets Initiative
