Availability considerations in network design
J.P. Sauv, Flávia Estélia Silva Coelho · 2002
One of the performance factors considered during network design is availability. There are many ways of defining network availability. We explain why a new measure could be useful, establish requirements that a new availability measure should satisfy, propose a new measure satisfying these requirements and give examples of its application to a 3-tier architecture. We show how to calculate the measure in polynomial time and give numerical examples.