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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 Pacific Rim International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1414-6
DOI :
10.1109/PRDC.2001.992688