M. Keshtgary, A.H. Jahangir (Iran), and A.P. Jayasumana (USA)
Survivability, Availability, Fault tree, Excess loss due to failure
Network survivability refers to the ability of a network to maintain uninterrupted service regardless of the scale, magnitude, duration, and the type of failures. There is growing interest in attempts to quantify the network survivability in presence of various failures. We perceive that both performance and availability are integral components of survivability. Therefore, we propose a general composite model for survivability performance evaluation which is applicable to a wide range of networks. In this model, the excess loss due to failure (ELF) analysis is used to find the loss due to failure when the system is operating in gracefully degraded states. Fault tree method is used to model the availability of the network and evaluate the cost due to link downtime. These two models are combined to construct a hierarchical model to evaluate the network survivability performance. A packet switched network with UDP packets is used as an example for this evaluation. We use network simulator ns-2 to evaluate the proposed model for packet switched networks. The results from simulation agree very well with the model.
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