Print Email Facebook Twitter Computing the Vulnerability of Communication Networks to Large-Scale Disasters Title Computing the Vulnerability of Communication Networks to Large-Scale Disasters Author Oostenbrink, Jorik (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Kuipers, Fernando (mentor) Langendoen, Koen (graduation committee) Spaan, Matthijs (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science Date 2017-08-31 Abstract Our society is becoming more and more dependent on communication networks. Thus, network operators and designers need to properly prepare themselves against large-scale disasters that could take down a significant amount of networking hardware within a large area.In this work, we consider the vulnerability of a network to disasters, and we propose an efficient method to compute the distribution of a network performance measure, based on a finite set of disaster areas and occurrence probabilities. Compared to other approaches, our approach is more accurate and gives more information about the vulnerability of the network. Based on our approach, we have implemented a tool to help visualize the vulnerability of a network to disasters.We give general methods to obtain finite disaster sets from empirical disaster data and showcase these methods on actual earthquake and hurricane datasets. Our approach is demonstrated by analyzing the vulnerability of a variety of network topologies to large-scale disasters. Subject disastergeographically correlated failuresnetwork vulnerabilitynetwork survivability To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:952f76ae-b9ea-4199-aa70-e6c5b8308b92 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2017 Jorik Oostenbrink Files PDF report_v2.pdf 42.03 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:952f76ae-b9ea-4199-aa70-e6c5b8308b92/datastream/OBJ/view