• 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