Resilient-By-Design: A Resiliency Framework for Future Wireless Networks

Abstract: Our future society will be increasingly digitalized, hyper-connected and globally data driven. The sixth generation (6G) and beyond 6G wireless networks are expected to bridge the digital and physical worlds by providing wireless connectivity as a service to different vertical sectors, making the society increasingly dependent on wireless networks. Thus, any disruption to these networks would have a significant impact with far-reaching consequences. Disruptions can occur for a variety of reasons, including planned outages, natural disasters, and deliberate cybersecurity attacks. Resilience against such disruptions is expected to be one of the most important defining features of future wireless networks. This paper first discusses a generic framework for designing future resilient wireless networks. A novel resilient-by-design framework consisting of four building blocks, namely predict, preempt, protect and progress, is then proposed as a specific example.