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 technica...

It is known that Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technique enables single fiber to carry huge amount of data but optical WDM networks are prone to failures, therefore survivability is a very important requirement in the design of optical networks. In this paper, a comprehensive review about survivability of WDM networks has been discussed focusing on scalable and efficient p-cycles resil...

Survivability is the ability of a system to continue operating despite the presence of abnormal events such as failures and intrusions. Ensuring system survivability has increased in importance as critical infrastructures have become heavily dependent on computers. In this paper we present a systematic method for performing survivability analysis of networked systems. An architect injects failu...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a mission to unify its software systems towards a “net-centric” vision— where commanders gain advantage by rapidly producing, consuming, and sharing information using service oriented architectures (SOAs). In this paper, we study the cyber survivability of mission-critical net-centric systems, focusing on Ballistic-Missile-Defense (BMD...

Among others, drinking water belongs to the socalled critical infrastructures. To ensure that the water production meets current and future societal needs, a systematic and rigorous analysis is needed. In this paper, we report our first experience with dependability analysis of the last phase of a water treatment facility, namely the water distribution. We use the architectural language Arcade ...

Mobile ad hoc wireless networks are generating novel interests in mobile computing. The dynamism in network topology has thrown up multifarious issues, requiring a fresh look into the aspects of system design and networking protocols. As a direct consequence of injecting mobility into a static network, the formal relationships between several governing parameters have undergone changes. In this...

The modern wired networks transport high data rates, where a single-network failure often causes enormous packet losses. To provide adequate protection for all source–destination pairs remains a critical issue in modern networks. In this article, a high survivability Internet Protocol (IP) fast-reroute scheme against single-link and single-node failures is first described, and then a Mixed Inte...

Software-intensive systems often exhibit dimensions in size and complexity that exceed the scope of comprehension of system designers and analysts. With this complexity comes the potential for undetected errors in the system. While software often causes or exacerbates this problem, its form can be exploited to ameliorate the difficulty in what is referred to as a survivability architecture. In ...

Critical infrastructure applications provide services upon which society depends heavily; such applications require survivability in the face of faults that might cause a loss of service. These applications are themselves dependent on distributed information systems for all aspects of their operation and so survivability of the information systems is an important issue. Fault tolerance is a key...

Survivability is the ability of a system to maintain a set of essential services despite the presence of abnormal events such as faults and intrusions. Ensuring system survivability has increased in importance as critical infrastructures have become heavily dependent on computers. In this paper we present a systematic method for performing survivability analysis of networks. A system architect ...