Heterogeneous Networking Issues

To make a network survivable it must be heterogeneous. The functionality of this network is defined by a set of protocols and its operations. In heterogeneous networks, if a protocol is weakened by any attack, it will not affect the entire network. Applying this heterogeneity concept, a new survivability paradigm is described in this chapter. This network architecture improves the network's heterogeneity without losing its interoperability. Several issues discovered in security and survivability applications can be converted into scheduling problems. To overcome this, a new model is described to support design and analysis with security and survivability concerns. A five-step model is introduced to transmute applications into model abstraction and representations with solutions resulting from scheduling algorithms. A reverse transformation converts the solutions back to the application domain.