Empirical Evidence of Reliability Growth in Large-Scale Networks

Journal of Network and Systems Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-213

  Snow, Andrew P ^a,b,c,d   Weiss, Martin B H ^a,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Cal Poly University   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PricewaterhouseCoopers USA   (United States)

^e Network Analysis Corporation ^*  (United States)

^f CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault analysis; FTS2000; Network reliability; NHPP

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

LARGE SCALE NETWORK; NONHOMOGENOUS POISSON PROCESS MODELS; RELIABILITY GROWTH;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0031166133     PISSN: 10647570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018774912261     Document Type: Article

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