| Summary: | This thesis applies Markov chain methods to evaluate the reliability of multipath switching networks and optical amplified systems in long-haul communication systems. When conventional methods proved impractical to evaluate the reliability of multipath switching networks and optical amplified systems, some practical methods based on Markov chains were developed by Whitmore and others (1987, 1988, 1991) and used successfully to evaluate the reliability of such systems. This work aims at describing the details of Markov chain methods for reliability calculation, and demonstrating their application to reliability evaluation of multipath switching networks and optical amplified systems.
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