Early-Warning-Driven Approach for Network Protection Against Earthquakes

Natural disasters can significantly disturb communication networks. There are examples of events causing massive connectivity failures in the past, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake. Network protection mechanisms have been developed to cope with the destructive power of natural disasters and mitigate their impact on connections...

Public Spaces for Community Resilience: Thinking beyond the Dichotomies of Public and Private as well as Exterior and Interior

This paper focuses on public spaces for community resilience in their ‘response-related abilities’ and which can be improved. Comparative studies of communities, places, and/or disasters after the unforeseen impactful events are indicators to quantify the level of resilience. Within the broad scope of literature, in this line, 'community...

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Rapid Communication Network Recovery with Multiple Repair Crews

Natural disasters can destroy communication network components, potentially leading to severe losses in connectivity. During those devastating events, network connectivity is crucial for rescue teams as well as anyone in need of assistance. Therefore, swift network restoration following a disaster is vital. However, post-disaster network...

Rainfall retrieval using commercial microwave links: Effect of sampling strategy on retrieval accuracy

This study presents the first evaluation of using commercial microwave link (CML) data for rainfall measurements in Australia, with the test site being the greater Melbourne Metropolitan area. More than 100 CMLs with microwave frequency ranging between 10 and 40 GHz have been used for the rainfall retrieval. The 15-minute received signal...

Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Method for Link-Based Resource Sharing Problems of Multi-Agent Systems

A multi-agent optimization problem motivated by the management of energy systems is discussed. The associated cost function is separable and convex although not necessarily strongly convex and there exist edge-based coupling equality constraints. In this regard, we propose a distributed algorithm based on solving the dual of the augmented...

A Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Method over Stochastic Networks for Economic Dispatch of Large-Scale Energy Systems

In this paper, we propose a distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme for economic dispatch of energy systems with a large number of active components. The scheme uses a distributed optimization algorithm that works over random communication networks and asynchronous updates, implying the resiliency of the proposed scheme with respect...

Reachability-based Robustness of Controllability in Sparse Communication Networks

In this paper, we propose closed-form analytic approximations for the number of controllable nodes in sparse communication networks from the aspect of network controllability, considering link-based random attack, targeted attack, as well as random attack under the protection of critical links. We compare our approximations with simulation...

Ad Hoc communication topology switching during disasters from altruistic to individualistic and Back

Disaster communication has made immense progress in the last thirty years. At present, disaster research focuses on bottom-up approaches such as civilian inclusion in disaster response. With the advent of smartphones, citizen-based emergency communication has become possible. Present ad hoc communication technologies typically form a fully...

Co-simulation for Cyber Security Analysis: Data Attacks against Energy Management System

It is challenging to assess the vulnerability of a cyber-physical power system to data attacks from an integral perspective. In order to support vulnerability assessment except analytic analysis, suitable platform for security tests needs to be developed. In this paper we analyze the cyber security of energy management system (EMS) against data...

LQG control with minimum directed information: Semidefinite programming approach

We consider a discrete-time Linear-QuadraticGaussian (LQG) control problem in which Massey’s directed information from the observed output of the plant to the control input is minimized while required control performance is attainable. This problem arises in several different contexts, including joint encoder and controller design for data-rate...

Detection of Spatially-Close Fiber Segments in Optical Networks

Spatially-close network fibers have a significant chance of failing simultaneously in the event of man-made or natural disasters within their geographic area. Network operators are interested in the proper detection and grouping of any existing spatially-close fiber segments, to avoid service disruptions due to simultaneous fiber failures....

Adaptive optimization for active queue management supporting TCP flows

An adaptive decentralized strategy for active queue management of TCP flows over communication networks is presented. The proposed strategy solves locally, at each link, an optimal control problem, minimizing a cost composed of residual capacity and buffer queue size. The solution of the optimal control problem exploits an adaptive...

Distributed route discovery in communication networks using neighbour information

In this thesis we provide a mathematical analysis of a distributed algorithm for route discovery in communication networks.

Designing reliable and resilient smart low-voltage grids

The electric power grid is a critical infrastructure that delivers electricity from power generation sources to consumers. At this time, renewable and distributed sources of electricity as well as new technologies that introduce large loads are significantly changing load profiles in low-voltage grids. This trend calls for reassessing the...

Analyzing Inverse Infrastructures using a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective

The number of inverse infrastructures (Vree, 2003), that is, user-driven and self-organizing infrastructures, is rising and unsettling policies that are foremost tailored to deal with large-scale and centrally-governed infrastructures (Egyedi et al. 2012). To better understand and address this mismatch, Van den Berg (2012) has developed a...

Wi-Fi networks: Individualism and collectiveness in the emergence and growth of Wi-Fi community initiatives

Wi-Fi has steadily emerged as the most favourite technology for wireless access to the internet. The most recent development in the Wi-Fi world is the increasing use of Wi-Fi technology in local community networks both in developing and developed countries. Wi-Fi offers possibilities for end-users in creating local community initiatives that go...

Dissemination of ERS-a low bitrate data and the use od L-band receiving stations

The dissemination of ERS-1 real-time thematic products via the Global Telecommunication System, the ECS satellite telecom system or the Eiuronet packet switching network is analysed and evaluated against the use of direct-receive L-band stations as used for NOAA weather image reception.

Military satellite communications, history and status as of 1974

After a short introduction to various types of links and network organisations, the experimental phase in military satellite communications systems is expounded in a chronological discussion of early communications satellites. This experimental phase is considered to be ended with the TASCAT and IDCSP satellites. Present systems and systems of...