IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1979 · 25 citations · 3 references
Network TopologyLink ReliabilitiesReliability EngineeringNetwork ScienceGraph TheoryEngineeringFault-tolerant NetworkSurvivable NetworkNetwork PlanningBusinessNetwork AnalysisSystems EngineeringNetwork RobustnessOptimum Link AllocationFixed Topology NetworksNetwork OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization
An algorithm determines the optimum link allocation of fixed topology networks having perfectly reliable nodes. The link reliabilities are allocated iteratively using the sensitivities of the network reliability function with respect to each link. An example illustrates the algorithm.
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