Reliability estimation of computer communication networks: ANN models

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1353-1358

  Altiparmak, Fulya ^a   Dengiz, Berna ^a   Smith, Alice E ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EXACT CALCULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS LINKS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; NETWORK RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 63149185535     PISSN: 15301346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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