Analysis of vulnerabilities of telecommunication systems to natural disasters

2010 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings, SysCon 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 359-364

  Kwasinski, Alexis ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Disaster response; Natural disasters; Power grid; Power supply; System of systems; Systems reliability; Transportation systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DISASTER RESPONSE; NATURAL DISASTERS; POWER GRID; POWER GRIDS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DISASTERS; POWER GENERATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954447234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2010.5482356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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