The average reliability of a graph

J. I. Brown, D. Cox, R. Ehrenborg

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the average reliability of a graph G, avgRel(G), which is average value of the all terminal reliability of a graph G on [0,1]. We show that while the determination of the average reliability of a graph is apparently intractable, it can be efficiently bounded. We show that the closure of the average reliabilities is the interval [0,1]. Finally, while in general there do not exist uniformly optimal graphs with respect to reliability, we apply average reliability to propose "good" graphs for network reliability, and provide evidence that a specific family of cyclic graphs are indeed good.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19-33
Number of pages15
JournalDiscrete Applied Mathematics
Volume177
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 20 2014

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by grant RGPIN 170450-2013 from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the National Science Foundation ( DMS 0902063 ).

Keywords

  • All terminal reliability
  • Average reliability
  • Closure
  • Cycle bundles
  • Optimal graph

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Applied Mathematics

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