The reliability of the electricity supply is important since any interruption to the supply has
direct and indirect consequences for its users. A reliable electricity supply requires a reliable …

Severe weather-induced power outages affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars
of economic losses each year. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners …

In post-disaster scenarios, it is challenging to provide reliable and flexible emergency
communications, especially when the mobile infrastructure is seriously damaged. This …

Disasters can have long lasting effects, but understanding the breadth, variety and longevity
of their effects can be challenging. This paper examines the long term effects and …

After a disaster event such as an earthquake or a hurricane, performing comprehensive and
detailed damage assessment of lifeline infrastructure is critical to effective disaster response …

Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot
disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate …

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

Failures caused by disasters (eg, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attacks, earthquakes,
hurricanes, etc.) can create huge amount of loss and disruptions in optical backbone …

Understanding the impact of disasters to civil infrastructure network will guide strategic pre-
disaster hazard mitigation and post-disaster recovery planning of a community. The facilities …

A new Markov-chain-based energy storage model to evaluate power supply availability of
photovoltaic generation is proposed. Since photovoltaic resources have high output …