Reliability assessment of p-cycles

In the paper, theoretical formulas describing the reliability function as well as the mean time to failure for static p-cycles are derived. The practical conclusions concerning the design of p-cycles are drawn: p-cycles do not always have good properties from the reliability viewpoint; if an operator decides to use them, it has to ensure that the trade-off between sharing of resources and the availability is reasonable. An appropriate function on which such a choice can be based is introduced.