DocumentCode
378758
Title
Availability considerations in network design
Author
Sauv, J.P. ; Coelho, Flavia Estélia Silva
Author_Institution
Departamento de Sistemas e Computacao, Univ. Fed. da Paraiba, Brazil
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
119
Lastpage
126
Abstract
One of the performance factors considered during network design is availability. There are many ways of defining network availability. We explain why a new measure could be useful, establish requirements that a new availability measure should satisfy, propose a new measure satisfying these requirements and give examples of its application to a 3-tier architecture. We show how to calculate the measure in polynomial time and give numerical examples
Keywords
computational complexity; computer network reliability; performance evaluation; telecommunication network routing; 3-tier architecture; availability considerations; dependability; network availability; network design; operational perspective; performance factors; polynomial time; Availability; Computer networks; Hospitals; Intelligent networks; Polynomials; Reliability; Throughput; Time measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Dependable Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 Pacific Rim International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Seoul
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1414-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PRDC.2001.992688
Filename
992688
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