This paper highlights the complexity and challenges of providing reliable services in the
evolving communications infrastructure. The hurdles in providing end-to-end availability …

Telecommunications networks need to guarantee that all node pairs involved in critical
service communications are highly available. Here we adopt a novel approach to the …

The survivability of telecommunications networks is of increasing importance as companies
and individuals become more dependent on access to a range of communications services …

There is a need for new architectures and designs of resilient networked systems that are
capable of supporting critical services and infrastructures. The arguments have previously …

Within the EC-sponsored RACE program, the IMMUNE project was established to analyze
and specify appropriate strategies for introducing end-to-end survivability into corporate and …

A practical guide to modeling and designing reliable networks Provides a detailed
introduction to modeling availability necessary for network design Helps network designers …

The Internet has become essential to all aspects of modern life, and thus the consequences
of network disruption have become increasingly severe. It is widely recognised that the …

The current trend is to integrate a constantly increasing number of services in the same
communication network. Some services have very high resilience requirements, while other …

Network resilience strategies aim to maintain acceptable levels of network operation in the
face of challenges, such as malicious attacks, operational overload or equipment failures …

Communication networks are constructed as a multilevel stack of infrastructure, protocols,
and mechanisms: links and nodes, topology, routing paths, interconnected realms (ASs) …