Sterbenz, James P.G.Mahmood, Rabat Anam2009-11-022009-11-022009-07-312009http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10503https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5583This thesis is focused on the issues and challenges confronted by real network topologies. The goal of this thesis is to lead towards tools that permit network design to be as resilient as possible. In this thesis, a new capability has been introduced for the ns-3 simulator in which challenges such as failures, attacks, and natural disasters can be applied to different networks. Several simulations were performed to study the network resilience in the face of different challenges.79 pagesENThis item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.Electronics and electrical engineeringComputer scienceChallengesNetworksResilienceThesisopenAccess