The Internet has become a key infrastructure for global information society. However, the availability of the Internet can be substantially challenged when a disaster strikes, because in such cases the recovery process as of today is largely manual, slow and inefficient. Recognizing that a key issue for obtaining availability is to find the connectivity to the lost destinations, we exploit Inte...

This paper develops an efficient heuristic to solve the non-homogeneous redundancy allocation problem for multi-state series-parallel systems. Non identical components can be used in parallel to improve the system availability by providing redundancy in subsystems. Multiple component choices are available for each subsystem. The components are binary and chosen from a list of products available...

System availability is an important subject in the design field of industrial system as the system structure becomes more complicated. While improving the system’s reliability, the cost is also on the upswing. The availability is increased by a redundancy system. Redundancy Allocation Problem (RAP) of a series-parallel system is traditionally resolved by experienced system designers. We propose...

Reliability allocation has an essential connection to design for reliability and is an important activity in the product design and development process. In determining the reliability of subsystems or components on the basis of goal reliability, attention must be paid to failure effect, failure information, and improvement opportunities based upon real potentials for reliability improvement. In...

How to optimally allocate redundant routers for high availability (HA) networks is a crucial task. In this paper, a 5-tuple availability function A (N ,M, , , ) is proposed to determine the minimum required number of standby routers to meet the desired availability ( ) of an HA router, where N and M are the numbers of active routers and standby routers, respectively, and , , and are a single ro...