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A performance-based tabular approach for joint systematic improvement of risk control and resilience applied to telecommunication grid, gas network, and ultrasound localization system

  • Ivo Häring
  • , Mirjam Fehling-Kaschek
  • , Natalie Miller
  • , Katja Faist
  • , Sebastian Ganter
  • , Kushal Srivastava
  • , Aishvarya Kumar Jain
  • , Georg Fischer
  • , Kai Fischer
  • , Jörg Finger
  • , Alexander Stolz
  • , Tobias Leismann
  • , Stefan Hiermaier
  • , Marco Carli
  • , Federica Battisti
  • , Rodoula Makri
  • , Giuseppe Celozzi
  • , Maria Belesioti
  • , Evangelos Sfakianakis
  • , Evita Agrafioti
  • Anastasia Chalkidou, George Papadakis, Clemente Fuggini, Fabio Bolletta, Alberto Neri, Guiseppe Giunta, Hermann Scheithauer, Fabian Höflinger, Dominik J. Schott, Christian Schindelhauer, Sven Köhler, Igor Linkov
  • Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut
  • Roma Tre University
  • Institute of Communications and Computer Systems
  • Ericsson AB
  • Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A.
  • Gap Analysis
  • RINA Consulting
  • Leonardo S.p.A.
  • Eni S.p.A.
  • Hahn-Schickard
  • University of Freiburg
  • United States Army

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Abstract

Organizational and technical approaches have proven successful in increasing the performance and preventing risks at socio-technical systems at all scales. Nevertheless, damaging events are often unavoidable due to a wide and dynamic threat landscape and enabled by the increasing complexity of modern systems. For overall performance and risk control at the system level, resilience can be a versatile option, in particular for reducing resources needed for system development, maintenance, reuse, or disposal. This paper presents a framework for a resilience assessment and management process that builds on existing risk management practice before, during, and after potential and real events. It leverages tabular and matrix correlation methods similar as standardized in the field of risk analysis to fulfill the step-wise resilience assessment and management for critical functions of complex systems. We present data needs for the method implementation and output generation, in particular regarding the assessment of threats and the effects of counter measures. Also included is a discussion of how the results contribute to the advancement of functional risk control and resilience enhancement at system level as well as related practical implications for its efficient implementation. The approach is applied in the domains telecommunication, gas networks, and indoor localization systems. Results and implications are further discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)286-329
Number of pages44
JournalEnvironment Systems and Decisions
Volume41
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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Funding

Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The current work has in parts received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program projects RESISTO (Grant agreement number 786409: Ivo Häring, Mirjam Fehling-Kaschek, Natalie Miller, Katja Faist, Marco Carli, Federica Battisti, Rodoula Makr, Giuseppe Celozzi, Maria Belesioti, and Evangelos Sfakianakis) and SecureGas (Grant agreement number 833017: Ivo Häring, Sebastian Ganter, Kushal Srivastava, Jörg Finger, Alexander Stolz, Evita Agrafioti, Anastasia Chalkidou, George Papadakis, Clemente Fuggini, Fabio Bolletta, Alberto Neri, and Guisepp Giunta) on cyber-physical security of telecommunication and of gas critical infrastructure, respectively. The work was in parts also supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg as well as supported as Fraunhofer High Performance Center Sustainability through projects covering the topics resilience measures for socio-technical systems and multimodal resilient indoor localization systems (Ivo Häring, Aishvarya Kumar Jain, Georg Fischer, Kai Fischer, Hermann Scheithauer, Fabian Höflinger, Dominik Jan Schott, Christian Schindelhauer, and Sven Köhler).

FundersFunder number
Fraunhofer High Performance Center Sustainability
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme786409, 833017
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

    Keywords

    • Engineering of resilience
    • ISO 31000
    • Joint risk and resilience analysis and management process
    • Resilience dimensions
    • Socio-technical system
    • System performance function
    • Tabular and matrix approach

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