Outline Topic: Vulnerability and Downtime on Uninett

Author: Tor Erik Olsen Smørholm

Network to study:

Uninett's network in Norway. They are the main provider of Internet for education and research in Norway, so they have quite a lot of bandwidth and connections to control.

They monitor all they lines and most of that information is posted on the Internet, including link downtime.

Purpose:

The purpose of my study will be to find if some links have more downtime than others, and the reasons for this.

Uninett also have some reports on why some of their links are down, and I will try to find if I can connect some of these reports to the downtime statistics.

Secondly, the vulnerability of the network will be characterized.

Links and nodes:

The nodes are all the school and research facilities etc. that are connected to Uninett, and then we have the links between each of those places. E.g. the link between hiMolde and Kristiansund, hiMolde and Trondheim etc.