Congestion-Reliability-Availability Relationship in Packet-Switching Computer Networks

1 October 1983

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Vol. R-32 (4) , 354-357
https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.1983.5221683

Abstract

The concepts of network reliability, availability, and congestion are presented; network congestion appears as a loss of availability with regard to data communication services provided to network users. New concepts are introduced for network availability evaluation; they consider network component reliability, their maintainability, and the network congestion together.

Keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS
TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC
COMPUTER NETWORK RELIABILITY
AVAILABILITY
MAINTENANCE
TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK RELIABILITY
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TRAFFIC CONTROL
COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGEMENT
RELIABILITY THEORY
DATA COMMUNICATION

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Flow Control: A Comparative Survey
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1980
The evolution of packet switching
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1978