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

Abstract—Recent natural disasters have revealed that emer- gency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary dis- aster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge that telecommunication networks constitute a critical infrastruc- ture 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 RE- CODIS 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.

Keywords

Vulnerability End-to-end resilience Natural disasters Disaster-based disruptions

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10198/16636

Citation

Gomes, Teresa; Tapolcai, Janos; Esposito, Christian; Hutchison, David; Kuipers, Fernando; Rak, Jacek; Sousa, Amaro de; Iossifides, Athanasios; Travanca, Rui; André, João; Jorge, Luísa; Martins, Lúcia; Ugalde, Patricia Ortiz; Pasic, Alija; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Jouet, Simon; Secci, Stefano; Tornatore, Massimo (2016). A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters. In Proceedings of 2016 8th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling, RNDM 2016. Halmstad, Sweden. p. 11-21. ISBN 978-146739023-1