Building reliability-improving network transformations.

Canale, Eduardo - Robledo, Franco - Romero, Pablo - Viera, Julián

Resumen:

A fundamental problem in network reliability analysis is to find the connectedness probability of a random graph subject to perfect nodes and independent link failures with identical probabilities. This connectedness probability is called the all-terminal reliability, and its determination is a challenging problem. In this paper we study the corresponding network design problem: which is the best way to connect q links among p nodes in order to maximize the all-terminal reliability? The optimal solutions to this problem are called uniformly most-reliable graphs. To the best of our knowledge, the literature offers a single reliability-improving network transformation called swing surgery, credited to Kelmans. Here, we offer two novel reliability-improving transformations which, even simple, they help to improve the reliability in a uniform sense (i.e., under all feasible link failure probability). Supported by the previous transformations, we prove that Yutsis graph is uniformly most-reliable, which is currently a computationally prohibitive problem. Conjectures and open problems are also discussed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
2019
Computer network reliability
Reliability engineering
Peer-to-peer computing
Surgery
Reliability theory
Communication networks
Network Reliability Analysis
Uniformly Most-Reliable Graphs
Swing Surgery
Yutsis Graph
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/49702
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0)