Disaster resilience of optical networks: State of the art, challenges, and opportunities

J Rak, R Girão-Silva, T Gomes, G Ellinas… - Optical Switching and …, 2021 - Elsevier
For several decades, optical networks, due to their high capacity and long-distance
transmission range, have been used as the major communication technology to serve …

Assessing the vulnerability of the fiber infrastructure to disasters

S Neumayer, G Zussman, R Cohen… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication networks are vulnerable to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods,
as well as to physical attacks, such as an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. Such real …

The resilience of WDM networks to probabilistic geographical failures

PK Agarwal, A Efrat, SK Ganjugunte… - IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to
large-scale failures in their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (such as …

Network reliability with geographically correlated failures

S Neumayer, E Modiano - 2010 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber-optic networks are vulnerable to natural disasters, such as tornadoes or earthquakes,
as well as to physical failures, such as an anchor cutting underwater fiber cables. Such real …

Geographic max-flow and min-cut under a circular disk failure model

S Neumayer, A Efrat, E Modiano - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Failures in fiber-optic networks may be caused by natural disasters, such as floods or
earthquakes, as well as other events, such as an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. These …

efradir: An enhanced framework for disaster resilience

A Pašić, R Girão-Silva, F Mogyorósi, B Vass… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal
cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is …

Analysis of geometric disaster evaluation model for physical networks

H Saito - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A geometric model of a physical network affected by a disaster is proposed and analyzed
using integral geometry (geometric probability). This analysis provides a theoretical method …

Optimal submarine cable path planning and trunk-and-branch tree network topology design

Z Wang, Q Wang, B Moran… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the path planning of submarine cable systems with trunk-and-branch tree topology
on the surface of the earth. Existing work on path planning represents the earth's surface by …

Reliability assessment for wireless mesh networks under probabilistic region failure model

J Liu, X Jiang, H Nishiyama… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless networks in an open environment are exposed to various large region threats, eg,
natural disasters and malicious attacks. Available works with regard to region failures …

Fundamentals of communication networks resilience to disasters and massive disruptions

J Rak, D Hutchison, J Tapolcai, R Bruzgiene… - Guide to disaster …, 2020 - Springer
Communication networks are exposed to a variety of massive failure events following from
activities of nature, weather-induced disruptions, technology-implied problems, and …