Computing diameter constrained reliability of a network with junction points

  • Authors:
  • D. A. Migov

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Automation and Remote Control
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider a network with unreliable communication channels and perfectly reliable nodes. The diameter constrained reliability for such a network is defined as the probability that between each pair of nodes, there exists a path consisting of operational edges whose number is upper bounded by a given integer. The problem of computing this characteristic is NP-hard, just like the problem of computing the probability of a network's connectivity. We propose a formula that lets one use junction points to compute the reliability of a two-pole system with diameter constraints, which makes the computations faster.