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

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

Teresa Gomes Universidade de Coimbra
János Tapolcai Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
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Christian Esposito University of Salerno
David Hutchison University of Lancaster
F.A. Kuipers Network Architectures and Services - EEMCS
Jacek Rak Gdansk University of Technology
Amaro de Sousa Universidade de Aveiro
Athanasios Iossifides Alexander T.E.I. of Thessaloniki
Rui Travanca Universidade de Aveiro
João André National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC)
Research Group
Network Architectures and Services (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 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
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1109/RNDM.2016.7608263
Vulnerability Natural disasters End-to-end resilience Disaster-based disruptions
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Published Date

13-09-2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Quantum & Computer Engineering

Research Group

Network Architectures and Services

Abstract

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.

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