Reliable networks design and modeling (foreword)

This Special Issue contains extended versions of selected papers from 2nd International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2010) held in Moscow, Russia on October 19–20, 2010. This very successful event was organized by Gdansk University of Technology (PL) in cooperation with University of Pittsburgh (US), and Wroclaw University of Technology (PL). The workshop was technically co-sponsored by IFIP TC6 WG6.10 and by IEEE. RNDM 2010 was a forum for discussions between people from academia and industry. Special focus was put on network survivability, i.e. capability of a network to provide continuous transmission after failures. All RNDM 2010 submissions were carefully reviewed by 45 members of the Technical Program Committee, and 18 external reviewers. Accepted papers written by authors from 17 countries, were organized into six technical sessions, namely: “Fault Management and Control in Survivable Networks”, “Survivability of Anycast, Multicast and Overlay Networks”, “Fast Service Recovery”, “Methods for Measurement, Evaluation, or Validation of Survivability”,