Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks

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.

1 Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Massive Disruptions
Jacek Rak, David Hutchison, Janos Tapolcai, Rasa Bruzgiene, Massimo Tornatore, Carmen Mas-Machuca, Marija Furdek, and Paul Smith

Part I: Measures and Models for the Analysis and Evaluation of Disaster-resilient Communication Networks

2 Functional Metrics to Evaluate Network Vulnerability to Disasters
Carlos Natalino, Sasko Ristov, Lena Wosinska, and Marija Furdek

3 Vulnerability Evaluation of Networks to Multiple Failures based on Critical Nodes and Links
Amaro de Sousa and Dorabella Santos

4 How to Model and Enumerate Geographically Correlated Failure Events in Communication Networks
Balázs Vass, János Tapolcai, David Hay, Jorik Oostenbrink, and Fernando Kuipers

5 Comparing Destructive Strategies for Attacking Networks
Hale Cetinay, Carmen Mas-Machuca, Jose L. Marzo, Robert Kooij, and Piet Van Mieghem

6 Modelling of Software Failures
Bjarne E. Helvik, Petra Vizarreta, Poul E. Heegaard, Kishor Trivedi, and Carmen Mas-Machuca

Part II: Techniques for Design and Update of Disaster-resilient Systems

7 Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-scale Disasters
Amaro de Sousa, Jacek Rak, Fábio Barbosa, Dorabella Santos, and Deepak Mehta

8 Security-aware Carrier Network Planning
Róza Goscien, Georgios Ellinas, Marija Furdek, Panayiotis Kolios, Piotr Lechowicz, Konstantinos Manousakis, Giannis Savva, Nina Skorin-Kapov, and Krzysztof Walkowiak

10 Reliable Control and Data Planes for Softwarized Networks
Carmen Mas-Machuca, Francesco Musumeci, Petra Vizarreta, Dimitrios Pezaros, Simon Jou¨ et, Massimo Tornatore, Ali Hmaity, Madhusanka Liyanage, Andrei Gurtov, and An Braeken

11 Emergency Networks for Post-disaster Scenarios
Gianluca Rizzo, Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, Marjan Gusev, Matija Dzanko, Ivana Bilic, Christian Esposito, and Torsten Braun

12 Quality-driven Schemes Enhancing Resilience of Wireless Networks under Weather Disruptions
Rasa Bruzgiene, Lina Narbutaite, Tomas Adomkus, Peter Pocta, Peter Brida, Juraj Machaj, Erich Leitgeb, Pirmin Pezzei, Hristo Ivanov, Nadezhda Kunicina, Anatolijs Zabasta, Jelena Caiko, and Antons Patlins

13 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, Rafael Perez-Jimenez, and Gert Freiberger

14 Alert-based Network Reconfiguration and Data Evacuation
Massimo Tornatore, Péter Babarczi, Omran Ayoub, Sifat Ferdousi, Rafael Lourenco, Johannes Zerwas, Andreas Blenk, Markus Klügel, and Wolfgang Kellerer

15 Resilient Techniques against Disruptions of Volatile Cloud Resources
Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, David Peer, Thanh-Phuong Pham, Marjan Gusev, and Carmen Mas-Machuca

16 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, and Marija Furdek

Part III: Algorithms and Schemes for Resilient Systems

17 Fundamental Schemes to Determine Disjoint Paths for Multiple Failure Scenarios
Teresa Gomes, Luísa Jorge, Rita Girão-Silva, Jose Yallouz, Péter Babarczi, and Jacek Rak

18 Taxonomy of Schemes for Resilient Routing
Ivan Ganchev, Jacek Rak, Tibor Cinkler, and Máirtín O’Droma

19 Disaster-resilient Routing Schemes for Regional Failures
Teresa Gomes, Dorabella Santos, Rita Girão-Silva, Lúcia Martins, Boro Nedic, Matthias Gunkel, Balázs Vass, János Tapolcai, and Jacek Rak

20 Resilient SDN-based Routing against Rain Disruptions for Wireless Networks
Forough Yaghoubi, Marija Furdek, Ahmad Rostami, Peter Öhlén, and Lena Wosinska

22 Enhancing Availability for Critical Services
Teresa Gomes, Lúcia Martins, Rita Girão-Silva, David Tipper, Alija Pašic, Balázs Vass, Luís Garrote, Urbano Nunes, Martin Zachariasen, and Jacek Rak

23 Detection of Attacks and Attack-survivable Routing in Carrier Networks
Marija Furdek, Federico Pederzolli, and Vincent W.S. Chan

24 Routing in Post-disaster Scenarios
Christian Esposito, Zhongliang Zhao, Gianluca Rizzo, Florin Pop, Elena Apostol, Catalin Leordeanu, and Stefan Preda

Part IV: Advanced Topics in Resilient Communication Systems

25 Resilient SDN, CDN and ICN Technology and Solutions
Michal Aibin, Miroslaw Kantor, Piotr Borylo, Heiko Niedermayer, Piotr Cholda, and Torsten Braun

26 Scalable and Collaborative Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Based on SDN and NFV
Agathe Blaise, Sandra Scott-Hayward, and Stefano Secci

27 Resilient NFV Technology and Solutions
Andrzej Kamisinski, Francesco Musumeci, Ali Hmaity, Massimo Tornatore, Marco Casazza, Stefano Secci, Arsham Farshad, David Hutchison, Bjarne E. Helvik, and Poul E. Heegaard

28 Resilience of 5G Mobile Communication Systems to Massive Disruptions
Tibor Cinkler, Akos Ladanyi, Jacek Rak, Christian Esposito, and Gianluca Rizzo

29 Design of Resilient Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Systems
Jacek Rak, Magnus Jonsson, Alexey Vinel, and Karol Jurczenia

30 Reliability Models for Multi-objective Design Problems
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Steven Latre, and Artur Tomaszewski

31 Analysing Disaster-induced Cascading Effects in Hybrid Critical Infrastructures: A Practical Approach
Sandra König, Antonios Gouglidis, Stefan Rass, Neil Adams, Paul Smith, and David Hutchison

32 Human and Organizational Issues for Resilient Communications
Tom Anderson, Jeremy Busby, Antonios Gouglidis, Karen Hough, David Hutchison, and Mark Rouncefield

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.