A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters

A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters

Gomes, Teresa (Universidade de Coimbra)
Tapolcai, János (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME))
Esposito, Christian (University of Salerno)
Hutchison, David (University of Lancaster)
Kuipers, F.A. (TU Delft Network Architectures and Services)
Rak, Jacek (Gdansk University of Technology)
de Sousa, Amaro (Universidade de Aveiro)
Iossifides, Athanasios (Alexander T.E.I. of Thessaloniki)
Travanca, Rui (Universidade de Aveiro)
André, João (National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC))

Jonsson, M. (editor)
Rak, J. (editor)
Somani, A. (editor)
Papadimitriou, D. (editor)
Vinel, A. (editor)

2016-09-13

Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our society, and the urgency in establishing protection mechanisms against disaster-based disruptions. Hence, it is important to have emergency networks able to maintain sustainable communication in disaster areas. Moreover, the network architecture should be designed so that network connectivity is maintained among nodes outside of the impacted area, while ensuring that services for costumers not in the affected area suffer minimal impact. As a first step towards achieving disaster resilience, the RECODIS project was formed, and its Working Group 1 members conducted a comprehensive literature survey on “strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters,” which is summarized in this article.

vulnerability
end-to-end resilience
Natural disasters
disaster-based disruptions

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cc844287-ecd1-4bb2-bc42-f658c8f728cb

https://doi.org/10.1109/RNDM.2016.7608263

IEEE, Halmstad, Sweden

978-1-4673-9024-8

2016 8th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM)

Resilient Networks Design and Modeling RDNM 2016, 2016-09-13 → 2016-09-15, Halmstad, Sweden

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© 2016 Teresa Gomes, János Tapolcai, Christian Esposito, David Hutchison, F.A. Kuipers, Jacek Rak, Amaro de Sousa, Athanasios Iossifides, Rui Travanca, João André, More Authors