High availability survivable networks: When is reducing MTTR better than adding protection capacity?

2007 6th International Workshop on Design and Reliable Communication Networks, DRCN 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Grover, Wayne D ^a   Sack, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TELUS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Availability analysis; Dual failure restorability; MTTR; Network availability; Optical networks; Service availability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OUTAGES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS; DUAL-FAILURE RESTORABILITY; MTTR; NETWORK AVAILABILITY; OPTICAL NETWORKS; SERVICE AVAILABILITY;

AVAILABILITY;

EID: 63249103408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DRCN.2007.4762261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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