Performability indicators for the traffic analysis of wide area networks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Tsopelas, Panagiotis ^a   Platis, Agapios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asynchronous transfer mode; Markov modelling; Network reliability; Performability; Traffic; Wide area networks

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INFORMATION FLOW;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 0041528512     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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