New event-driven sampling techniques for network reliability estimation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 224-231

  Konak, Abdullah ^a   Smith, Alice E ^b   Kulturel Konak, Sadan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

BLOCK SAMPLING; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK RELIABILITY ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 17744366852     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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