Design and modeling of reliable networks (foreword)

This Special Issue presents extended versions of selected papers from 3rd International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2011) held in Budapest, Hungary on October 3–5, 2011. This event, organized by Gdansk University of Technology (PL) in co-operation with Concordia University (CA), and atesio GmbH (DE), was technically co-sponsored by IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 and IEEE. Similar to previous editions, RNDM 2011 provided a very successful discussion forum for people from academia and industry. After a detailed review process, 27 accepted papers written by authors from 23 countries, were organized into seven technical sessions, namely: “Optical Networks Survivability”, “Resilience of Multilayer and Overlay Networks”, “Models and Algorithms of Survivable Networks Design”, “Network Reliability Assessment”, “Theory of Network Reliability”, “Survivability of Anycast and Multicast Networks”, and ”Shared Link Risk Groups”. Authors of 15 papers of high merit were next invited to submit the extended versions to this Special Issue. Final acceptance of papers included here was conditional upon re-