Hierarchical reliability evaluation of large networks

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 444-451

  Sharma, N ^a   Agrawal, D P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; HIERARCHICAL NETWORK; LARGE NETWORKS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; RELIABILITY EVALUATION; RELIABILITY EXPRESSION; SOURCE-DESTINATION PAIRS; TERMINAL RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 85063327675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPDP.1991.218207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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