An Algorithm for Computing the Reliability of Multiple Terminal-Pairs

다중 터미널 신뢰도 계산을 위한 효율적 알고리즘

The computation of a terminal-pair reliability is started with a Boolean sum of products expression corresponding to simple paths of the pair of nodes. This expression is then transformed into another equivalent expression to be a Sum of Disjoint Products form. The terminal reliability can then be obtained in a straightforward manner from the Sum of Disjoint Products form. In this paper, we proposed an efficient method to obtain reliability expressions for calculating multiple K terminal-pairs reliability between terminal-pairs of nodes of computers of complex networks. Actual programming results show that the new method is superior with regard to computational efficiency, especially for computing the reliability of multiple terminals.