Inflection points for network reliability |
| |
Authors: | Jason I. Brown Yakup Koç Robert E. Kooij |
| |
Affiliation: | 1. Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3J5, Canada 2. Systems Engineering Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 4. TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), Delft, The Netherlands
|
| |
Abstract: | Given a finite, undirected graph G (possibly with multiple edges), we assume that the vertices are operational, but the edges are each independently operational with probability p. The (all-terminal) reliability, (operatorname{Rel}(G,p)) , of G is the probability that the spanning subgraph of operational edges is connected. It has been conjectured that reliability functions have at most one point of inflection in (0,1). We show that the all-terminal reliability of almost every simple graph of order n has a point of inflection, and there are indeed infinite families of graphs (both simple and otherwise) with more than one point of inflection. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|