Networking services may be broken down in a disaster situation while people in the disaster
area (s) strongly demand networking services for both communication and information …

A network restoration system based on local clouds, enables prompt and conventional
networking service restoration in disaster environment without the Internet connectivity. This …

The importance to our society of emergency network communications cannot be
underestimated. The loss of communication and network systems in a state of emergency …

Cloud infrastructure services allow organizations to outsource their computing, storage, and
networking needs to external providers. These offerings use network virtualization to …

This article proposes a novel approach to onthe-fly establishment of multihop wireless
access networks (OEMAN) for disaster response. OEMAN extends Internet connectivity from …

Disasters can cause severe service disruptions due to large-scale correlated cascading
failures in telecom networks. Major network disruptions due to disasters-both natural (eg …

For fast restoration of telecommunication services after disasters, it is very important to
organize restoration actions with an appropriate restoration policy. It is not easy, however, to …

Natural disasters can result in severe damage to communication infrastructure, which leads
to further chaos to the damaged area. After the disaster strikes, most of the victims would …

In disaster sites of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, digital communication was virtually unavailable
due to the serious damage to the existing Internet and ICT resources. Thus there were …

Disasters, such as earthquake, tsunami, tornado, and malicious attack, may cause large-
area, geographically correlated and/or cascading failures in telecom networks, leading to …