A Data-Driven Approach to Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks

Communication networks are critical in business, government, and even our day-to-day life. A prolonged communication outage can have devastating effects, particularly during and after a disaster. Unfortunately, our communication infrastructure is still vulnerable to natural disasters and other events that damage multiple network components...

Computing the Vulnerability of Communication Networks to Large-Scale Disasters

Our society is becoming more and more dependent on communication networks. Thus, network operators and designers need to properly prepare themselves against large-scale disasters that could take down a significant amount of networking hardware within a large area.<br/><br/>In this work, we consider the vulnerability of a network to disasters,...