THE WILLOW SURVIVABILITY ARCHITECTURE

Introduction The Willow architecture provides a comprehensive architectural approach to the provision of survivability [8] in critical information networks. It is based on the notion that survivability of a network requires reconfiguration at both the system and the application levels. The Willow notion of reconfiguration is very general, and the architecture provides reconfiguration mechanisms for both automatic and manual network control. In this paper we summarize the Willow concepts and provide an overview of the Willow architecture. Finally we describe a demonstration application system that has been built on top of a prototype Willow implementation.

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