Network reliability analysis and intractability of counting diameter crystal graphs

Canale, Eduardo - Robledo Amoza, Franco Rafael - Romero, Pablo - Rubino, Gerardo

Resumen:

Consider a stochastic network, where nodes are perfect but links fail independently, ruled by failure probabilities. Additionally, we are given distinguished nodes, called terminals, and a positive integer, called diameter. The event under study is to connect terminals by paths not longer than the given diameter. The probability of this event is called diameter-constrained reliability (DCR, for short). Since the DCR subsumes connectedness probability of random graphs, its computation belongs to the class of NP-Hard problems. The computational complexity for DCR is known for fixed values of the number of terminals k n and diameter d, being n the number of nodes in the network. The contributions of this article are two-fold. First, we extend the computational complexity of the DCR when the terminal size is a function of the number of nodes, this is, when k = k(n). Second, we state counting diameter-critical graphs belongs to the class of NP-Hard problems.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2016
Computational complexity
Network reliability
Diameter-critical graphs
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/9204
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial – Sin Derivadas (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:Consider a stochastic network, where nodes are perfect but links fail independently, ruled by failure probabilities. Additionally, we are given distinguished nodes, called terminals, and a positive integer, called diameter. The event under study is to connect terminals by paths not longer than the given diameter. The probability of this event is called diameter-constrained reliability (DCR, for short). Since the DCR subsumes connectedness probability of random graphs, its computation belongs to the class of NP-Hard problems. The computational complexity for DCR is known for fixed values of the number of terminals k n and diameter d, being n the number of nodes in the network. The contributions of this article are two-fold. First, we extend the computational complexity of the DCR when the terminal size is a function of the number of nodes, this is, when k = k(n). Second, we state counting diameter-critical graphs belongs to the class of NP-Hard problems.