The Internet is a critical infrastructure supporting our information-based society. Our dependence on this infrastructure is similar to our dependence on the world's power grids and global transportation systems. Failures of the network infrastructure or major applications running on it can have an enormous financial and social cost, with serious consequences to the organizations and consumers that depend on these services.

and Reliable Network Design.- The Challenges of Building Reliable Networks and Networked Application Services.- Structural Overview of ISP Networks.- Reliability Modeling and Network Planning.- Reliability Metrics for Routers in IP Networks.- Network Performability Evaluation.- Robust Network Planning.- Interdomain Reliability and Overlay Networks.- Interdomain Routing and Reliability.- Overlay Networking and Resiliency.- Configuration Management.- Network Configuration Management.- Network Configuration Validation.- Network Measurement.- Measurements of Data Plane Reliability and Performance.- Measurements of Control Plane Reliability and Performance.- Network and Security Management, and Disaster Preparedness.- Network Management: Fault Management, Performance Management, and Planned Maintenance.- Network Security - A Service Provider View.- Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency.- Reliable Application Services.- Building Large-Scale, Reliable Network Services.- Capacity and Performance Engineering for Networked Application Servers: A Case Study in E-mail Platform Planning.