IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/adspcp/978-3-540-68056-7_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Overview of Reliability and Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure

In: Critical Infrastructure

Author

Listed:
  • Alan T. Murray

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Tony H. Grubesic

    (Indiana University)

Abstract

The concept of interconnection is an important one for a wide range of social, economic and political issues. Broadly defined, interconnection refers to a state of reciprocal connection. In this context, two or more interconnected entities can exchange ideas, currency, information and other valuable goods with each other, often for mutual benefit. For example, telecommunication backbone providers frequently interconnect at points of presence (POPs) or Internet exchanges (IXs) in order to accommodate peering relationships between large networks or to provide data transit for smaller systems. One obvious benefit accrued through this type of practice is extending the geographic reach of each backbone involved with the interconnection arrangement, providing access to new markets and potential customers. Over time, these interconnections can strengthen or decline, depending on the benefits acquired through interconnectivity. If the relationship between entities strengthens significantly, the condition of interdependency can emerge. In this context, the entities involved require the reliable operation of their interconnected partner(s) to function properly. If the relationship between entities weakens significantly, connections may be disbanded.

Suggested Citation

  • Alan T. Murray & Tony H. Grubesic, 2007. "Overview of Reliability and Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Alan T. Murray & Tony H. Grubesic (ed.), Critical Infrastructure, chapter 1, pages 1-8, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-68056-7_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68056-7_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. López, Fernando A. & Páez, Antonio & Carrasco, Juan A. & Ruminot, Natalia A., 2017. "Vulnerability of nodes under controlled network topology and flow autocorrelation conditions," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 77-87.
    2. Bobbio, A. & Bonanni, G. & Ciancamerla, E. & Clemente, R. & Iacomini, A. & Minichino, M. & Scarlatti, A. & Terruggia, R. & Zendri, E., 2010. "Unavailability of critical SCADA communication links interconnecting a power grid and a Telco network," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 95(12), pages 1345-1357.
    3. Yates, Justin & Sanjeevi, Sujeevraja, 2013. "A length-based, multiple-resource formulation for shortest path network interdiction problems in the transportation sector," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, vol. 6(2), pages 107-119.
    4. Ting Lei & Daoqin Tong, 2013. "Hedging against service disruptions: an expected median location problem with site-dependent failure probabilities," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 15(4), pages 491-512, October.
    5. Robertson, Lindsay J., 2010. "From societal fragility to sustainable robustness: Some tentative technology trajectories," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 342-351.
    6. Md Shahab Uddin & Pennung Warnitchai, 2020. "Decision support for infrastructure planning: a comprehensive location–allocation model for fire station in complex urban system," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 102(3), pages 1475-1496, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-68056-7_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.