Internet outages are inevitable, frequent, opaque, and expensive. To make things worse,
they are poorly understood, while a deep understanding of them is essential for …

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences
of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and …

Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to
large-scale failures in their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (such as …

We consider line outages in the transmission network of the power grid, and specifically
those caused by natural disasters or large-scale physical attacks. In such networks, an …

With the frequent occurrences of natural disasters damaging large portions of
communication networks and the rising risk of intentional attacks, network vulnerability to …

In this position paper on reliable networks, we discuss new trends in the design of reliable
communication systems. We focus on a wide range of research directions including …

Data centers being an architectural and functional block of cloud computing are integral to
the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Cloud computing is rigorously …

Multiple failures can have catastrophic consequences on the normal operation of
telecommunication networks. In this sense, guaranteeing network robustness to avoid users …

The field of IoT has blossomed and is positively influencing many application domains. In
this article, we bring out the unique challenges this field poses to research in computer …

Communication networks play a vital role in our daily lives and they have become a critical
infrastructure. However, networks in general, and the Internet in particular face a number of …