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Novel Direct Algorithm for Computing Simultaneous All-Levels Reliability of Multi-state Flow Networks

Wei-Chang Yeh
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All kind of networks, e.g., Internet of Things, social networks, wireless sensor networks, transportation networks, 4g/5G, etc., are around us to benefit and help our daily life. The multistate flow network (MFN) is always used to model network structures and applications. The level d reliability, Rd, of the MFN is the success probability of sending at least d units of integer flow from the source node to the sink node. The reliability Rd is a popular index for designing, managing, controlling, and evaluating MFNs. The traditional indirect algorithms must have all d-MPs (special connected vectors) or d-MCs (special disconnected vectors) first, then use Inclusion-Exclusion Technique (IET) or Sum-of-disjoint Product (SDP) in terms of found d-MPs or d-MCs to calculate Rd. The above four procedures are all NP-Hard and #P-Hard and cannot calculate Rd for all d at the same time A novel algorithm based on the binary-addition-tree algorithm (BAT) is proposed to calculate the Rd directly for all d at the same time without using any of the above four procedures. The time complexity and demonstration of the proposed algorithm are analyzed, and examples are provided. An experiment is also conducted to compare the proposed algorithm and existing algorithms based on d-MPs, d-MCs, IET, and/or SDP to validate the proposed algorithm.

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Wei-Chang Yeh. 2021-07-28. Novel Direct Algorithm for Computing Simultaneous All-Levels Reliability of Multi-state Flow Networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13665

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