Network Reliability and Resilience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783642223730)

This book is devoted to the probabilistic description of the behavior of a network in the process of random removal of its components (links, nodes) appearing as a result of technical failures, natural disasters or intentional attacks. It is focused on a practical approach to network reliability and resilience evaluation, based on applications of Monte Carlo methodology to numerical approximation of network combinatorial invariants, including so-called multidimensional destruction spectra. This allows to develop a probabilistic follow-up analysis of the network in the process of its gradual destruction, to identify most important network components and to develop efficient heuristic algorithms for network optimal design. Our methodology works with satisfactory accuracy and efficiency for most applications of reliability theory to real -life problems in networks.

Author: Ilya Gertsbakh, Yoseph Shpungin
ISBN-10: 3642223737
ISBN-13: 9783642223730
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2011
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.18d