Network reliability: Heading out on the highway

JI Brown, CJ Colbourn, D Cox, C Graves, L Mol - Networks, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of probabilistic notions of network reliability of graphs and digraphs have been
proposed and studied since the early 1950s. Although grounded in the engineering and …

On the Roots of a Family of Polynomials

M Jianu - Fractal and Fractional, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to give a characterization of the set of roots of a special family of
polynomials. This family is relevant in reliability theory since it contains the reliability …

[HTML][HTML] The shape of node reliability

JI Brown, L Mol - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2018 - Elsevier
Given a graph G whose edges are perfectly reliable and whose nodes each operate
independently with probability p∈[0, 1], the node reliability of G is the probability that at least …

Maximal intervals of decrease and inflection points for node reliability

J Brown - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2022 - Elsevier
The node reliability of a graph G is the probability that at least one node is operational and
that the operational nodes can all communicate in the subgraph that they induce, given that …

Inflection points of reliability polynomials are dense in [0, 1]

J Brown, D Cox - Networks, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Suppose we have a graph G (finite and undirected) where the vertices of G are always
operational, but the edges of G operate independently with probability. The all‐terminal …

MCILS: Monte-Carlo interpolation least-square algorithm for approximation of edge-reliability polynomial

AH Hadian-Rasanan, D Rahmati… - 2019 9th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge reliability problem has many applications in different field of science and engineering
such as: cognitive science, neuroscience, electrical engineering, network science and so on …

All Terminal Reliability Roots of Smallest Modulus

JI Brown, CDC DeGagné - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.02359, 2019 - arxiv.org
Given a connected graph $ G $ whose vertices are perfectly reliable and whose edges each
fail independently with probability $ q\in [0, 1], $ the\textit {(all-terminal) reliability} of $ G $ is …

Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics

T Polynomial - api.taylorfrancis.com
The Tutte polynomial is surely the most studied graph polynomial, particularly when all of its
many specializations, generalizations, and applications are included. The impact of the Tutte …

Rational roots of all‐terminal reliability

JI Brown, CDC DeGagné - Networks, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Given a connected graph G whose vertices are perfectly reliable and whose edges each fail
independently with probability q∈[0, 1], the (all‐terminal) reliability of G is the probability that …