Design of Reliable and Robust Networks

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your original research or review papers to this Special Issue on “Design of reliable and robust networks” in Applied Science.

Critical infrastructures, such as telecommunication, water, gas, energy, or any other transport networks, are omnipresent and play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning of modern day living. These networks have to constantly deal with failures of their components. Several strategies to mitigate the effects of single failures have been proposed in the literature. However, multiple failure scenarios are more difficult to manage. The concept of robustness is used to quantify how good a network is under those large-scale failure scenarios. On the other hand, modelling the type of failures, intentional attacks, or natural disasters is also crucial to improve the techniques to face these scenarios.

This Special Issue is an opportunity to further disseminate the scientific and technological development related to the design of reliable and robust networks, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Novel network resilient and robustness metrics;
• Identification and protection of critical infrastructures;
• Protocols and algorithms to improve the network resilience;
• Modelling networks failures and attacks…

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eusebi Calle
Prof. José Luis Marzo
Guest Editors

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