Evaluation Method for the Network Reliability Based on the Entropy Measures

Author

Jiang, Yu ; Hu, Aiqun ; He, Ming

Author_Institution

Inf. Sci. & Eng. Sch., Southeast Univ. Nanjing, Nanjing

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

25-26 April 2009

Firstpage

423

Lastpage

426

Abstract

An evaluation method for the network reliability of communication networks based on the entropy measures is presented. Without the previous knowledge of the reliability of nodes and links, this method quantizes the uncertainty of the link and node importance through the entropy measures and evaluates the network reliability according to the network entropy. The theoretical analysis indicates that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

Keywords

entropy; telecommunication network reliability; communication networks; entropy measures; evaluation method; links reliability; network reliability; nodes reliability; Binary decision diagrams; Computer networks; Entropy; Helium; Information science; Information security; Network topology; Reliability engineering; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless communication; entropy; link importance; node importance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing, 2009. NSWCTC '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4223-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSWCTC.2009.128

Filename

4908495