Assessing the impact of geographically correlated network failures

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Neumayer, Sebastian ^a   Zussman, Gil ^b   Cohen, Reuven ^c   Modiano, Eytan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Electrical Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cut capacity; Electromagnetic pulse (EMP); Geographic networks; Internet; Network design; Network survivability

Indexed keywords

CUT CAPACITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP); GEOGRAPHIC NETWORKS; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK SURVIVABILITY;

ACCIDENTS; DISASTERS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; GRAPH THEORY; INTERNET; LOCATION; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

EID: 62349108771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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