Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

For several decades, optical networks, due to their high capacity and long-distance
transmission range, have been used as the major communication technology to serve …

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

With the increasing social and economic reliance on the Internet and the significant
monetary and non-monetary societal cost associated with service interruption, network …

Today's Internet applications include grid-and cloud-computing services which can be
implemented by mapping virtual networks (VNs) over physical infrastructure such as an …

Backup datacenters provide massive data storage and access services, and their failure
may result in huge economic losses. So their location selection requires low damage risk …

Telecommunication networks face large-scale threats, such as natural disasters
(earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, etc.) and targeted attacks (weapons of mass destruction) …

Recent occurrences of disasters and targeted attacks have made disaster-resilient data-
center network design an important issue. Network operators are investigating proactive and …

Cloud-computing services are provided to consumers through a network of servers and
network equipment. Cloud-network (CN) providers virtualize resources [eg, virtual machine …

Most sectors of modern society are currently undergoing rapid digitalization. With the
progress of this development IT networks are becoming an ever more crucial asset whose …