Reliability analysis for integrated networks with application to burst switching

System performance and reliability are jointly assessed for highly reliable telecommunication or computer networks. The underlying model assumes that at most a small number of components can be 'down' at a time, and that the average repair/replacement time of a failed component is small when compared to the average uptimes of network components. At steady state the system is assumed to follow a regenerative stochastic process. This methodology is used to evaluate highly distributed voice/data integrated networks. The performance measure selected for this application is the traffic loss rate.