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27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
A Cut-Based Algorithm for Reliability Analysis of Terminal-Pair Network Using OBDD
Dallas, Texas
November 03-November 06
ISBN: 0-7695-2020-0
Yung-Ruei Chang, National Taiwan University
Hung-Yau Lin, National Taiwan University
Ing-Yi Chen, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University
In this paper,we propose an algorithm to construct the Ordered Binary Decision Diagram (OBDD) representing the cut function of a terminal-pair network. The algorithm recognizes isomorphic sub-problems and thus avoids redundant computations. The system reliability could be efficiently computed by the OBDD. Finally, we propose an approach to compute the importance measures for multiple components by traversing the OBDD only once. The correctness and the effectiveness of our approach are demonstrated by experiments on 30 benchmark networks. The experimental results on a 2-by-100 lattice network, which has 299 paths or 10,000 cuts,show an impressive improvement compared to the previous works using the sum of disjoint products method that have exponential complexity. The CPU time of our method, including the calculation of not only the reliability but also the importance measures, for a 100-stage lattice network is only about 0.24 seconds. Thus, this approach is very helpful for the reliability and sensitivity analysis of large networks.
Citation:
Yung-Ruei Chang, Hung-Yau Lin, Ing-Yi Chen, Sy-Yen Kuo, "A Cut-Based Algorithm for Reliability Analysis of Terminal-Pair Network Using OBDD," compsac, pp.368, 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2003
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