A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters

Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastr...

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Published in2016 8th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) pp. 11 - 22
Main Authors Gomes, Teresa, Tapolcai, Janos, Esposito, Christian, Hutchison, David, Kuipers, Fernando, Rak, Jacek, de Sousa, Amaro, Iossifides, Athanasios, Travanca, Rui, Andre, Joao, Jorge, Luisa, Martins, Lucia, Ortiz Ugalde, Patricia, Pasic, Alija, Pezaros, Dimitrios, Jouet, Simon, Secci, Stefano, Tornatore, Massimo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2016
Subjects
Communication networks
Degradation
disaster-based disruptions
Earthquakes
end-to-end resilience
Internet
Measurement
natural dis- asters
Resilience
Routing
vulnerability
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Summary:Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastructure of our society, and the urgency in establishing protection mechanisms against disaster-based disruptions. Hence, it is important to have emergency networks able to maintain sustainable communication in disaster areas. Moreover, the network architecture should be designed so that network connectivity is maintained among nodes outside of the impacted area, while ensuring that services for costumers not in the affected area suffer minimal impact. As a first step towards achieving disaster resilience, the RECODIS project was formed, and its Working Group 1 members conducted a comprehensive literature survey on "strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters," which is summarized in this article.
DOI:10.1109/RNDM.2016.7608263