The Method of GMPLS Network Reliability Evaluation

Reliability evaluation is important task in a network design process. The GMPLS network supports physical separation of functional planes and therefore reliability evaluation becomes more difficult. The method of GMPLS network reliability evaluation is proposed in this paper. The idea of this method is based on the GMPLS as a multistate system. In order to demonstrate usefulness of this approach, proposed method is implemented and reliability evaluation for test network is preformed.