Probabilistic fault localization in communication systems using belief networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 809-822

  Steinder, Małgorzata ^a   Sethi, Adarshpal S ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BAYESIAN REASONING TECHNIQUES; BUCKET ELIMINATION ALGORITHM; FAULT LOCALIZATION; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; ROOT CAUSE DIAGNOSIS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444290590     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2004.836121     Document Type: Article

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