An analytical modeling framework to evaluate converged networks through business-oriented metrics

Guimarães, Almir P., Paulo Martins Maciel () and Rivalino Matias

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2013, vol. 118, issue C, 81-92

Abstract: Nowadays, society has increasingly relied on convergent networks as an essential means for individuals, businesses, and governments. Strategies, methods, models and techniques for preventing and handling hardware or software failures as well as avoiding performance degradation are, thus, fundamental for prevailing in business. Issues such as operational costs, revenues and the respective relationship to key performance and dependability metrics are central for defining the required system infrastructure. Our work aims to provide system performance and dependability models for supporting optimization of infrastructure design, aimed at business oriented metrics. In addition, a methodology is also adopted to support both the modeling and the evaluation process. The results showed that the proposed methodology can significantly reduce the complexity of infrastructure design as well as improve the relationship between business and infrastructure aspects.

Keywords: Dependability; Stochastic Petri Net; Reliability Block Diagram; Reliability importance; Infrastructure design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.04.008

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