Title
Self-Similarity Breeds Resilience
Abstract
Self-similarity is the property of a system being similar to a part of itself. We posit that a special class of behaviourally self-similar systems exhibits a degree of resilience to adversarial behaviour. We formalise the notions of system, adversary and resilience in operational terms, based on transition systems and observations. While the general problem of proving systems to be behaviourally self-similar is undecidable, we show, by casting them in the framework of well-structured transition systems, that there is an interesting class of systems for which the problem is decidable. We illustrate our prescriptive framework for resilience with some small examples, e.g., systems robust to failures in a fail-stop model, and those avoiding side-channel attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.4204/EPTCS.222.3
ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Issue
Behavioural self-similarity, resilience, adversary, context, barbs, bisimulation, well-structured transition systems, fault-tolerance
Journal
222
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2075-2180
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanjiva Prasad130140.04
Lenore D. Zuck21559141.69