Disaster-based failures can seriously affect the performance of a communication network. They include natural disasters, technology-related failures, or malicious attacks, and are observably increasing in number, intensity and scale. The problem needs to be urgently addressed due to the lack of suitable mechanisms deployed in current networks.

The objective of this Special Session at DRCN 2017 is to provide forum for presentations of pioneering solutions in particular related, but not limited to the following:

- Algorithms of disaster-resilient routing
- Large-scale natural disasters
- Malicious human activities causing massive failures
- Massive failures
- Measures to evaluate vulnerability of communication networks to disaster-based  disruptions
- Mechanisms to utilize predictions on disaster-based threats
- Technology-related disasters
- Weather-based disruptions
- Update of topological characteristics of networks to improve their disaster-resilience

Papers submission is done electronically via EDAS - Please upload your contribution HEREAll papers will be reviewed. Accepted and presented papers are planned to be published in DRCN 2017 proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.Paper length should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the IEEE two-column conference template.