A survey of resilience differentiation frameworks in communication networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 32-55

  Cholda, Piotr ^a   Mykkeltveit, Anders ^b   Helvik, Bjarne E ^b   Wittner, Otto J ^b   Jajszczyk, Andrzej ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFICIENT; CRITICAL EVALUATION; FUTURE CHALLENGES; MULTIPLE SERVICES; NUMBER OF SERVICES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 66749176965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2007.4444749     Document Type: Review

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