The Tier-1 ISPs have been considered the Internet's backbone since the dawn of the
modern Internet 30 years ago, as they guarantee global reachability. However, their …

Network survivability endeavors to ensure the uninterrupted provisioning of services by the
network operators in case of a disaster event. Studies and news reports show that network …

Identifying critical nodes and links in graphs is a crucial task. These nodes/links typically
represent critical elements/communication links that play a key role in a system's …

Content-centric networking (CCN) is a promising framework to rebuild the Internet's
forwarding substrate around the concept of content. CCN advocates ubiquitous in-network …

Graph robustness metrics have been used largely to study the behavior of communication
networks in the presence of targeted attacks and random failures. Several researchers have …

Implementing energy-efficient CPUs and peripherals as well as reducing resource
consumption have become emerging trends in computing. A landmark for researchers in …

For many years the research community has attempted to model the Internet in order to
better understand its behaviour and improve its performance. Since much of the structural …

Wide area backbone communication networks are subject to a variety of hazards that can
result in network component failures. Hazards such as power failures and storms can lead to …

Quantifying the importance of nodes is a fundamental and significant problem in network
science. Potential applications including identifying critical people, epidemic spreading …

Computer networks serve as critical infrastructure to services in business, health care, and
education. Targeted attacks and random failures may cause link or node removals, which in …