Computer network reliability evaluation from application's point of view

Distributed computing systems are composed of processing elements, memory modules, data files, and programs. These shared resources are interconnected via communication links that enable a program (application) to run on a node by using data files available at other nodes. The authors introduce a very efficient one-step algorithm which can compute reliability parameters from an application's point of view directly, without requiring any a priori knowledge of multiterminal connections. This algorithm can be extended to evaluate many other reliability parameters such as computer network reliability, source to multiterminal reliability, distributed system reliability.<>