IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Regular Section
Efficient Reliability Evaluation of Multi-Domain Networks with Secure Intra-Domain Privacy
Atsushi TANIGUCHITakeru INOUEKohei MIZUNOTakashi KURIMOTOAtsuko TAKEFUSAShigeo URUSHIDANI
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2020 Volume E103.B Issue 4 Pages 440-451

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Communication networks are now an essential infrastructure of society. Many services are constructed across multiple network domains. Therefore, the reliability of multi-domain networks should be evaluated to assess the sustainability of our society, but there is no known method for evaluating it. One reason is the high computation complexity; i.e., network reliability evaluation is known to be #P-complete, which has prevented the reliability evaluation of multi-domain networks. The other reason is intra-domain privacy; i.e., network providers never disclose the internal data required for reliability evaluation. This paper proposes a novel method that computes the lower and upper bounds of reliability in a distributed manner without requiring privacy disclosure. Our method is solidly based on graph theory, and is supported by a simple protocol that secures intra-domain privacy. Experiments on real datasets show that our method can successfully compute the reliability for 14-domain networks in one second. The reliability is bounded with reasonable errors; e.g., bound gaps are less than 0.1% for reliable networks.

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