A Novel Two-Terminal Reliability Analysis for MANET

Table 1

Definition of symbols.

𝑁	Set of nodes
𝑛	|𝑁|, number of 𝑁
𝑖	Index of node 𝑖, 𝑖=1,…,𝑛
𝑟𝑖	Reliability of node 𝑖
𝐺(𝑁)	Network 𝐺(𝑁)
𝐶	Set of possible configurations of network 𝐺(𝑁)
𝑙𝑖𝑗	Virtual link between nodes 𝑖 and 𝑗
𝐿	Link configuration matrix
𝜂𝑙	Number of linked node pairs
𝜂𝑢	Number of unlinked node pairs
𝛼𝑘	One of the configurations in 𝐺(𝑁), 𝑘=1,…,|𝐶|
𝑃(𝛼𝑘=1)	The existence probability of 𝛼𝑘
𝜆	Constant probability of link existence
𝑔	Average neighbor nodes
𝑔𝑖	Neighbor nodes of node 𝑖
2TR𝛼𝑘	Two-terminal reliability of configuration 𝛼𝑘
2TR	Two-terminal reliability of MANET