Resilience, provisioning, and control for the network of the future

Acknowledgements The PhD thesis at hand is the result of the work of many years. During those years I received manifold support from different sides and, thus, would like to express my gratitude. I owe thanks to my supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Phuoc Tran-Gia who laid excellent foundations for the creative work on current and relevant research questions at his department. The valuable environment is distinguished by a sound combination of scientifically interesting industry co-operations, projects in international context, and the contact to the worldwide research community. I also owe special thanks to Prof. Dr. Peder J. Emstad for serving as my second supervisor. His remarkably fast review and his very helpful remarks made the timely completion of my graduation within an ambitious time schedule possible.