Speaker: Michel Paquette
TITLE: Communication in Networks with Positively Correlated Faults 

ABSTRACT:
The fundamental questions of communication network reliability have been
studied in the past under the assumption that components fail randomly and
independently. However, it is widely accepted that faults appear with positive
correlation in communication networks. 

In this talk, we consider the problem of feasibility and time of communication
in networks with dependent positively correlated faults. We propose what is, to
the best of our knowledge, the first set of analytic results concerning this
important aspect of network communication.

This is joint work with Evangelos Kranakis and Andrzej Pelc.