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Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters

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This chapter is dedicated to the description of methods aiming to improve the survivability of carrier networks to large-scale disasters. First, a disaster classification and associated risk analysis is described, and the disaster-aware submarine fibre-optic cable deployment  is addressed aiming to minimize the expected costs in case of natural disasters. Then, the chapter addresses the improvement of the network connectivity resilience to multiple node failures caused by malicious human activities. Two improvement methods are described aiming to minimize the connectivity impact of any set of node failures. One method is based on the appropriate selection of a set of network nodes to be made robust to node attacks. The other is a topology design method aiming to select the most appropriate set of links, within a given fibre budget, that provide the best resilience to multiple node failures. The latter method can also be applied to the upgrade task of a current network topology.

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    In transparent optical networks, a topology is optically transparent if it provides all node pairs with at least one path whose optical length is not higher than the transparent reach of the network.

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    In transparent optical networks, a topology is 2-connected if it is optically transparent for any single node failure.

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Acknowledgements

This chapter is based on work from COST Action CA15127 (“Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures—RECODIS”) supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). A. de Sousa, F. Barbosa, and D. Santos were supported by FCT, Portugal, through project ResNeD CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-029312. F. Barbosa was also supported by FCT, Portugal, through PhD grant SFRH/BD/132650/2017.

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de Sousa, A., Rak, J., Barbosa, F., Santos, D., Mehta, D. (2020). Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters. In: Rak, J., Hutchison, D. (eds) Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44685-7_7

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