Publisher Summary Network reliability encompasses a range of issues related to the design
and analysis of networks which are subject to the random failure of their components …

Reliability optimization has been a popular area of research, and received significant
attention due to the critical importance of reliability in various kinds of systems. Most network …

Many real-world systems, such as electric power and transportation, satisfy the flow
conservation law, and can be considered to be multistate flow networks (MFN). Reliability is …

Several algorithms have been developed to solve the reliability problem for nonseries‐
parallel networks using the sum of disjoint products (SDP) approach. This paper provides a …

Evaluating the network reliability is an important topic in the planning, designing, and control
of systems. The sum-of-disjoint products technique (SDP) is a major fundamental tool for …

System reliability evaluation for flow networks is an important issue in quality management.
This paper concentrates on a stochastic-flow network in which nodes as well as branches …

Researchers have proposed cardinality-, lexicographic-, and Hamming-distance-order
methods to preprocess the path terms in sum of disjoint products (SDP) techniques for …

The quality of service is an important index to measure the performance of an information
system. This paper constructs a stochastic-flow network to model the information system. In …

This paper presents an efficient cutset approach to compute the reliability of a large
communication network having heterogeneous link capacities. The reliability measure has …

Based on a real industrial application, three new system reliability models are proposed:
combined k-out-of-n: F and consecutive-k/sub c/-out-of-n: F system; combined k-out-of-m/spl …