A new simulation method based on the RVR principle for the rare event K - network reliability problem

In this paper we consider the evaluation of a well Known K-network unreliability parameter by means of a new RVR Monte-Carlo method. It is based on seres-parellel reductions and a conditioning procedure using pathsets and cutsets for recursively changing the original problem into the unreliability p...

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Autores: Cancela, Héctor, El Khadiri, Mohamed, Rubino, Gerardo
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad de la República
Repositorio:COLIBRI
OAI Identifier:oai:colibri.udelar.edu.uy:20.500.12008/3558
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/3558
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:RVR
Método de Monte Carlo
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Sumario:In this paper we consider the evaluation of a well Known K-network unreliability parameter by means of a new RVR Monte-Carlo method. It is based on seres-parellel reductions and a conditioning procedure using pathsets and cutsets for recursively changing the original problem into the unreliability problem for a smaller network. We illustrate by experimental results that the proposed method has good behavior in rare event cases and offers significant speed-ups over other state-of-the art variance-reduction techniques.