Wednesday, April 20th:
Steve Cosares ,
BCIS Department, Hofstra University
Title:
Planning Models for Network Robustness: Survivability and Flexibility
Abstract:
Since many of today's networks, e.g., for telecommunications or power
distribution, are called upon to reliably deliver high levels of
traffic over it links, they should be carefully designed to have
sufficient capability and capacity - not only to satisfy expected
demands for service, but to be able to respond to unexpected
conditions as well. Traditional models had dealt separately with
planning for the potential for network damage - like a cut in a link
or an equipment breakdown - and designing a network that would be
capable (on the average) of satisfying demands whose models are
appropriately stochastic in nature. In this talk we describe some
approaches to combining these models because it turns out that the
same planning strategies provide for both forms of network
robustness.