An exact model for balanced gamma network reliability

Author

El-Sayed, Yaser ; Venkatesan, R.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John´´s, Nfld., Canada

fYear

1998

fDate

26-29 May 1998

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

25

Abstract

The balanced gamma network is a fault tolerant multistage interconnection network. In a previous paper, the reliability of the balanced gamma network was studied. The terminal reliability, broadcast reliability, and the network reliability were evaluated. However, the previously provided network reliability model was approximated. In this paper, we introduce an exact model for the network reliability of the balanced gamma network taking into account all possible combinations of the switching elements failures in any stage. Realistic failure rates are used to evaluate the reliabilities of switching elements and the results confirm the robustness of the balanced gamma network

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; multistage interconnection networks; telecommunication network reliability; ATM traffic; balanced gamma network; exact model; fault tolerant multistage interconnection network; network reliability; realistic failure rates; switching elements failures; Broadcasting; Communication switching; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Noise measurement; Reliability engineering; Routing; Telecommunication network reliability; Telephony; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM Workshop Proceedings, 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fairfax, VA

ISSN

1098-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATM.1998.675106

Filename

675106