Composite performance and availability analysis of wireless communication networks

TitleComposite performance and availability analysis of wireless communication networks
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2001
AuthorsY Ma, JJ Han, and KS Trivedi
JournalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume50
Issue5
Start Page1216
Pagination1216 - 1223
Date Published09/2001
Abstract

With the increasing popularity of wireless communication systems, customers are expecting the same level of service, availability, and performance from the wireless communication networks as the traditional wire-line networks. Traditional pure performance model that ignores failure and recovery but considers resource contention generally overstimates the system's ability to perform a certain job. On the other hand, pure availability analysis tends to be too conservative since performance considerations are not taken into account. To obtain realistic composite performance and availability measures, one should consider performance changes that are associated with failure recovery behavior. In this paper, a brief review is first given over the advances in composite performance and availability analysis. Thereafter, three techniques for composite performance and availability analysis are discussed in detail through a queueing system in a wireless communication network. Numerical results show that an approximate model based on a framework originally proposed by Bobbio and Trivedi (BT approach) provides remarkably accurate predictions on system performance.

DOI10.1109/25.950322
Short TitleIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology