TY - JOUR
T1 - Network Reliability
AU - Ball, Michael O.
AU - Colbourn, Charles J.
AU - Provan, J. Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
Research of the first author was supported by NSF grant No. CDR-8803012 and was carried out, in part, while the first author was visiting the Department of Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research of the second author was supported by NSERC Canada under grant A0579. Research of the third author was supported by NSF grant No. CCR-9200572. The authors would like to thank Christos Alexopoulos for providing many valuable comments.
PY - 1995/1
Y1 - 1995/1
N2 - Network reliability encompasses a range of issues related to the design and analysis of networks which are subject to the random failure of their components. Relatively simple, and yet quite general, network models can represent a variety of applied problem environments. Network classes for which the models are discussed are particularly appropriate include data communications networks, voice communications networks, transportation networks, computer architectures, electrical power networks and command and control systems. The ultimate objective of research in the area of network reliability is to give design engineers procedures to enhance their ability to design networks for which reliability is an important consideration. Ideally, one would like to generate network design models and algorithms which take as input the characteristics of network components as well as network design criteria, and produce as output an “optimal” network design.
AB - Network reliability encompasses a range of issues related to the design and analysis of networks which are subject to the random failure of their components. Relatively simple, and yet quite general, network models can represent a variety of applied problem environments. Network classes for which the models are discussed are particularly appropriate include data communications networks, voice communications networks, transportation networks, computer architectures, electrical power networks and command and control systems. The ultimate objective of research in the area of network reliability is to give design engineers procedures to enhance their ability to design networks for which reliability is an important consideration. Ideally, one would like to generate network design models and algorithms which take as input the characteristics of network components as well as network design criteria, and produce as output an “optimal” network design.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0927-0507(05)80128-8
DO - 10.1016/S0927-0507(05)80128-8
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77957036347
SN - 0927-0507
VL - 7
SP - 673
EP - 762
JO - Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science
JF - Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science
IS - C
ER -