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Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks

  • Provides comprehensive guidance on the evaluation of the disaster resilience of networked systems, and how to design for improved disaster-resilience
  • Reviews issues relating to all major failure scenarios, including natural disasters, weather-induced disruptions, technology-related failures, and malicious human activities
  • Presents authoritative insights from an international selection of experts in the field

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Massive Disruptions

    • Jacek Rak, David Hutchison, Janos Tapolcai, Rasa Bruzgiene, Massimo Tornatore, Carmen Mas-Machuca et al.
    Pages 1-43
  3. Measures and Models for the Analysis and Evaluation of Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Functional Metrics to Evaluate Network Vulnerability to Disasters

      • Carlos Natalino, Sasko Ristov, Lena Wosinska, Marija Furdek
      Pages 47-62
    3. How to Model and Enumerate Geographically Correlated Failure Events in Communication Networks

      • Balázs Vass, János Tapolcai, David Hay, Jorik Oostenbrink, Fernando Kuipers
      Pages 87-115
    4. Comparing Destructive Strategies for Attacking Networks

      • Hale Cetinay, Carmen Mas-Machuca, Jose L. Marzo, Robert Kooij, Piet Van Mieghem
      Pages 117-140
    5. Modelling of Software Failures

      • Bjarne E. Helvik, Petra Vizarreta, Poul E. Heegaard, Kishor Trivedi, Carmen Mas-Machuca
      Pages 141-172
  4. Techniques for Design and Update of Disaster-Resilient Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
    2. Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters

      • Amaro de Sousa, Jacek Rak, Fábio Barbosa, Dorabella Santos, Deepak Mehta
      Pages 175-192
    3. Security-Aware Carrier Network Planning

      • Róża Goścień, Georgios Ellinas, Marija Furdek, Panayiotis Kolios, Piotr Lechowicz, Konstantinos Manousakis et al.
      Pages 193-217
    4. Secure and Resilient Communications in the Industrial Internet

      • Mohammad Borhani, Madhusanka Liyanage, Ali Hassan Sodhro, Pardeep Kumar, Anca Delia Jurcut, Andrei Gurtov
      Pages 219-242
    5. Reliable Control and Data Planes for Softwarized Networks

      • Carmen Mas-Machuca, Francesco Musumeci, Petra Vizarreta, Dimitrios Pezaros, Simon Jouët, Massimo Tornatore et al.
      Pages 243-270
    6. Emergency Networks for Post-Disaster Scenarios

      • Gianluca Rizzo, Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, Marjan Gusev, Matija Dzanko, Ivana Bilic et al.
      Pages 271-298
    7. Quality-Driven Schemes Enhancing Resilience of Wireless Networks under Weather Disruptions

      • Rasa Bruzgiene, Lina Narbutaite, Tomas Adomkus, Peter Pocta, Peter Brida, Juraj Machaj et al.
      Pages 299-326
    8. Free Space Optics System Reliability in the Presence of Weather-Induced Disruptions

      • Hristo Ivanov, Erich Leitgeb, Daniel Kraus, Frank Marzano, Antonio Jurado-Navas, Sander Dorenbos et al.
      Pages 327-351
    9. Alert-Based Network Reconfiguration and Data Evacuation

      • Massimo Tornatore, Péter Babarczi, Omran Ayoub, Sifat Ferdousi, Rafael Lourenco, Johannes Zerwas et al.
      Pages 353-377
    10. Resilient Techniques Against Disruptions of Volatile Cloud Resources

      • Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, David Peer, Thanh-Phuong Pham, Marjan Gusev, Carmen Mas-Machuca
      Pages 379-400
    11. Structural Methods to Improve the Robustness of Anycast Communications to Large-Scale Failures

      • Amaro de Sousa, Dorabella Santos, Carlos Natalino, Lena Wosinska, Carmen Mas-Machuca, Marija Furdek
      Pages 401-425
  5. Algorithms and Schemes for Resilient Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 427-427

About this book

This authoritative volume presents a comprehensive guide to the evaluation and design of networked systems with improved disaster resilience. The text offers enlightening perspectives on issues relating to all major failure scenarios, including natural disasters, disruptions caused by adverse weather conditions, massive technology-related failures, and malicious human activities.

Topics and features: describes methods and models for the analysis and evaluation of disaster-resilient communication networks; examines techniques for the design and enhancement of disaster-resilient systems; provides a range of schemes and algorithms for resilient systems; reviews various advanced topics relating to resilient communication systems; presents insights from an international selection of more than 100 expert researchers working across the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors.

This practically-focused monograph, providing invaluable support on topics of resilient networking equipment and software, is an essential reference for network professionals including network and networked systems operators, networking equipment vendors, providers of essential services, and regulators. The work can also serve as a supplementary textbook for graduate and PhD courses on networked systems resilience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Communications, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Jacek Rak

  • School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    David Hutchison

About the editors

Dr. hab. Jacek Rak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Communications at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. His other publications include the Springer title Resilient Routing in Communication Networks.

Dr. David Hutchison is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK.​

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