A new reliability measure for computer networks

Author

Choudhury, Abhijit K. ; Li, Victor O K

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

22-24 Nov 1989

Firstpage

293

Lastpage

297

Abstract

A new reliability measure for computer communication networks, mean 2-terminal throughput per unit capacity, is proposed as an alternative to conventional reliability measures. It gives an idea of the amount of traffic that can be reliably transferred from the source to the destination in a network with unreliable components, per unit installed capacity. The measure is then extended to an index of overall network reliability. A computationally efficient scheme to evaluate the proposed measure is presented and numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of this measure over conventional measures. Finally, another method of evaluating the measure, as a function of the routing scheme, is presented

Keywords

computer networks; reliability; computer networks; mean 2-terminal throughput per unit capacity; network reliability; reliability measure; routing scheme; traffic; unreliable components; Capacity planning; Communication networks; Computer network reliability; Computer networks; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Routing; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '89. Fourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference

Conference_Location

Bombay

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1989.176945

Filename

176945