Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts
The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to intelligently integrate into various aspects of modern digital society, including smart cities, homes, health-care, transportation, and factories. While offering a multitude of services, it is likely that societies become increa...
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| author | Ladan Khaloopour Yanpeng Su Florian Raskob Tobias Meuser Roland Bless Leon Janzen Kamyar Abedi Marko Andjelkovic Hekma Chaari Pousali Chakraborty Michael Kreutzer Matthias Hollick Thorsten Strufe Norman Franchi Vahid Jamali |
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| description | The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to intelligently integrate into various aspects of modern digital society, including smart cities, homes, health-care, transportation, and factories. While offering a multitude of services, it is likely that societies become increasingly reliant on 6G infrastructure. Any disruption to these digital services, whether due to human or technical failures, natural disasters, or terrorism, would significantly impact citizens’ daily lives. Hence, 6G networks need not only to provide high-performance services but also to be resilient in maintaining essential services in the face of potentially unknown challenges. This paper provides a general review of the state of the art on resilient systems, definitions, concepts, and approaches. Moreover, it introduces a comprehensive concept, i.e., resilience-by-design (RBD), in three different levels for designing resilient 6G communication networks, summarizing our initial studies within the German Open6GHub project. First, we outline the general RBD enabling principles and discuss their related sub-categories. Next, adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we propose to embed these principles across all 6G layers/perspectives including electronics, physical channel, network components and functions, networks, services, and cross-layer and cross-infrastructure considerations and discuss their challenges. We further elaborate the RBD principles and their realizations along with several 6G use-cases. The paper is concluded by presenting a comprehensive list of open problems for future research on 6G resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e83e829e730c407facd28d164dcc26222025-08-20T02:18:46ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011215566615569510.1109/ACCESS.2024.348027510716652Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling ConceptsLadan Khaloopour0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3008-2292Yanpeng Su1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-7452Florian Raskob2https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8571-8828Tobias Meuser3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5932Roland Bless4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1651-1548Leon Janzen5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2648-6507Kamyar Abedi6Marko Andjelkovic7https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-2062Hekma Chaari8https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5357-0490Pousali Chakraborty9https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6257-0975Michael Kreutzer10Matthias Hollick11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9163-5989Thorsten Strufe12https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8723-9692Norman Franchi13https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2777-4722Vahid Jamali14https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-7415Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Resilient Communication Systems Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyInstitute for Electrical Smart City Systems, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, GermanyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Communication Networks Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Communication Networks Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyDepartment of Computer Science, Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyLeibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP), Frankfurt, GermanyInstitute for Electrical Smart City Systems, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, GermanyFraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, GermanyFraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Darmstadt, GermanyDepartment of Computer Science, Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Electrical Smart City Systems, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, GermanyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Resilient Communication Systems Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, GermanyThe sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to intelligently integrate into various aspects of modern digital society, including smart cities, homes, health-care, transportation, and factories. While offering a multitude of services, it is likely that societies become increasingly reliant on 6G infrastructure. Any disruption to these digital services, whether due to human or technical failures, natural disasters, or terrorism, would significantly impact citizens’ daily lives. Hence, 6G networks need not only to provide high-performance services but also to be resilient in maintaining essential services in the face of potentially unknown challenges. This paper provides a general review of the state of the art on resilient systems, definitions, concepts, and approaches. Moreover, it introduces a comprehensive concept, i.e., resilience-by-design (RBD), in three different levels for designing resilient 6G communication networks, summarizing our initial studies within the German Open6GHub project. First, we outline the general RBD enabling principles and discuss their related sub-categories. Next, adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we propose to embed these principles across all 6G layers/perspectives including electronics, physical channel, network components and functions, networks, services, and cross-layer and cross-infrastructure considerations and discuss their challenges. We further elaborate the RBD principles and their realizations along with several 6G use-cases. The paper is concluded by presenting a comprehensive list of open problems for future research on 6G resilience.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10716652/6G communication networksattackcross-layer designdependabilityfailurelayer-specific design |
| spellingShingle | Ladan Khaloopour Yanpeng Su Florian Raskob Tobias Meuser Roland Bless Leon Janzen Kamyar Abedi Marko Andjelkovic Hekma Chaari Pousali Chakraborty Michael Kreutzer Matthias Hollick Thorsten Strufe Norman Franchi Vahid Jamali Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts IEEE Access 6G communication networks attack cross-layer design dependability failure layer-specific design |
| title | Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts |
| title_full | Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts |
| title_fullStr | Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts |
| title_short | Resilience-by-Design in 6G Networks: Literature Review and Novel Enabling Concepts |
| title_sort | resilience by design in 6g networks literature review and novel enabling concepts |
| topic | 6G communication networks attack cross-layer design dependability failure layer-specific design |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10716652/ |
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