DocumentCode
556159
Title
Reliability polynomials crossing more than twice
Author
Brown, Jason I. ; Koç, Yakup ; Kooij, Robert E.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada
fYear
2011
fDate
5-7 Oct. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
In this paper we study all-terminal reliability polynomials of networks having the same number of nodes and the same number of links. First we show that the smallest possible size for a pair of networks that allows for two crossings of their reliability polynomials have seven nodes and fifteen edges. Then we propose a construction of pairs of graphs whose reliability polynomials exhibit an arbitrary number of crossings. The construction does not depend on multigraphs. We also give concrete examples of pairs of graphs whose reliability polynomials have three, four and five crossings, respectively, and provide the first example of a graph with more than one point of inflection in (0,1).
Keywords
graph theory; polynomials; telecommunication network reliability; all-terminal reliability polynomials; edge connectivity; multigraphs; triple crossings; Computer network reliability; Concrete; Polynomials; Robustness; Telecommunication network reliability; edge connectivity; probabilistic graph; reliability polynomial;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2011 3rd International Congress on
Conference_Location
Budapest
ISSN
2157-0221
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0682-0
Type
conf
Filename
6078860
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