Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 216186, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/216186
Research Article

A Novel Two-Terminal Reliability Analysis for MANET

Xibin Zhao,1 Zhiyang You,1,2 and Hai Wan1

1Key Laboratory for Information System Security of Ministry of Education, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received 27 February 2013; Accepted 15 March 2013

Academic Editor: Xiaoyu Song

Copyright © 2013 Xibin Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a dynamic wireless communication network. Because of the dynamic and infrastructureless characteristics, MANET is vulnerable in reliability. This paper presents a novel reliability analysis for MANET. The node mobility effect and the node reliability based on a real MANET platform are modeled and analyzed. An effective Monte Carlo method for reliability analysis is proposed. A detailed evaluation is performed in terms of the experiment results.