Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks

This authoritative volume presents a comprehensive guide to the evaluation and design of networked systems with improved disaster resilience. The text offers enlightening perspectives on issues relating to all major failure scenarios, including natural disasters, disruptions caused by adverse weather conditions, massive technology-related failures, and malicious human activities.

Topics and features:

Describes methods and models for the analysis and evaluation of disaster-resilient communication networksExamines techniques for the design and enhancement of disaster-resilient systemsProvides a range of schemes and algorithms for resilient systemsReviews various advanced topics relating to resilient communication systemsPresents insights from an international selection of more than 100 expert researchers working across the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors


This practically-focused monograph, providing invaluable support on topics of resilient networking equipment and software, is an essential reference for network professionals including network and networked systems operators, networking equipment vendors, providers of essential services, and regulators. The work can also serve as a supplementary textbook for graduate and PhD courses on networked systems resilience.

Dr. hab. Jacek Rak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Communications at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. His other publications include the Springer title Resilient Routing in Communication Networks.

Dr. David Hutchison is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK.​