"High-Availability Network Design, Optimization, and Analysis"

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Despite considerable efforts taken to provide physical protection of cables, North American networks still experience frequent cable cuts and outages. For more traditional networks of the type used for basic voice or data, outages can result in severe financial losses. Given the critical nature of many of the applications that emerging networks are intended to carry (medical-grade applications, first responder applications, etc.), the consequences of failure could be much more extreme. And yet the very sparse nature of many public (and even some private) networks' underlying infrastructure makes them inherently un-survivable, often with single points of failure. In those cases, span cuts could easily result in one portion of the network being severed from the remainder.