Reliability of Multipath Networks with Optimization of the Location of Inter-Path Communication Nodes

The article explores the possibility of improving the reliability of a network with multipath routing. A feature of the proposed study is the analysis of the influence of the placement of switching nodes that switch path segments on the probability of network connectivity with servers of the same type and heterogeneous in functionality. The purpose of the article is to increase the reliability of the network, taking into account the influence of the placement of communication nodes that implement the switching of route segments during reconfiguration, on the connectivity of the network with servers that are homogeneous and heterogeneous in functionality. The research involves the construction of a structural reliability model that takes into account the possibility of failures of both communication nodes and the links between them. The reliability model is built taking into account the availability of request sources with full and non-full access connections to the set of network paths.