Network Reliability and Resilience (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Softcover

Gertsbakh, Ilya; Shpungin, Yoseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642223737 ISBN 13: 9783642223730

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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This book is devoted to the probabilistic description of a network in the process of its destruction, i.e. 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, based on application of Monte Carlo methodology to numerical evaluation of network most important structural parameters. This allows to obtain a probabilistic description of the network in the process of its destruction, to identify most important network components and to develop efficient heuristic algorithms for network optimal design. The methodology works with satisfactory accuracy and efficiency for small –to-medium size networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642223737
• ISBN 13: 9783642223730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74