Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The students must have insight in:

• Different types of faults (accidental and malicious) that can occur during the operation phase of a communication system
• Dependability concepts
• Methods for fault detection and fault recovery
• Cryptographic protocols and cryptographic distributed algorithms
• Anomaly detection in cyber-physical systems
• Distributed ledger technologies

Skills

Students must be able to:

• list the different considered faults, both accidental and malicious, how they propagate through the system and assess their severity and occurrence likelihood
• quantitatively assess the impact of faults on system availability and system reliability
• apply methods for fault-detection and recovery to complex networked systems, including cyber-physical systems
• Develop fault tolerant strategies for ensuring the continuation of the system in the presence of faults
• incorporate cryptographic algorithms into protocol design to achieve secure network operation
• use Machine learning tools and stochastic models for anomaly detection in networks

Competences

Students must be able to

• Select fault-tolerant and security-provision strategies for a given distributed system.
• systematically analyze distributed, networked systems and feedback the analysis results into an efficient, fault-tolerant and secure system and protocol design

Type of instruction

As descript in §17

Exam

Exams