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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2012
Marcos Dias DE Assuncao, Sao Paulo, BR;
Bruno D. Flach, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Maira A. DE C. Gatti, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Rudy R. Harry Putra, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takashi Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Sao Paulo, BR;
Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Sao Paulo, BR;
Bruno D. Flach, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Maira A. de C. Gatti, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Rudy R. Harry Putra, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takashi Imamichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Sao Paulo, BR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Likely disconnections or system-level-impact producing slowdown in a flow parameter in a network can be identified by annotating a graph representing the network with a weight to edges of a graph representing the network. The weight can be linearly or non-linearly proportional to the inverse of the severity of the impact, and/or linearly or non-linearly proportional to the inverse of the likelihood of disconnection. Minimal cut sets needed to generate a disconnection in the network are identified from the annotated network based on the weights on the edges. Subsets of each minimal cut set are generated and evaluated during a simulation. The subsets can correspond to almost isolated scenarios for the network. The scope of the simulations can be reduced by selecting the minimal cut sets employing the weight.