NETWORK DISASTER RECOVERY AND ANALYSIS TOOL

An embodiment of the system and method of the present invention organizes the recovery of a communications network to minimize the interference between the recovering nodes and thus allows for a faster recovery. A metered rate is calculated at which nodes recover from a major network failure; when nodes recover at the metered rate, the network recovers quickly but without performance degrading interference. A measure of the interference between recovering nodes may be created; the interference measure may be used to partition the network, where the nodes within each partition set interfere minimally with each other during recovery and each set recovers separately. Recovering items (nodes or sets) may be sequenced so that each item recovers substantially separately in time, but where adjacent sequence items recover with some temporal overlap. Alternate embodiments may organize any system of items such as objects or devices competing for resources to minimize interference; a metered rate or measure of interference may be created, and the items may be partitioned and sequenced.