In a recent paper by Azaiez and Bier [Optimal resource allocation for security in reliability systems, European Journal of Operational Research, 181, (2007), 773786], the problem of determining resource allocation in series-parallel systems (SPSs) is considered. The results for this problem are based on the results for the leastexpected cost failure-state diagnosis problem. In this note, it is ...

In this document we provide further insights into Boosting Independent Embeddings Robustly (BIER). First, in Section 2 we describe our method for loss functions operating on triplets. Next, in Section 3 we show how our method behaves when we vary the embedding size and the number of groups. In Section 4 we summarize the effect of our boosting based training approach and our initialization appro...

Traditional IP multicast (IPMC) maintains state per IPMC group in core devices to distribute one-to-many traffic along tree-like structures through the network. This limits its scalability because whenever subscribers of groups change, forwarding network needs be updated. Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) has been proposed by IETF for efficient transport without need IPMC-group-dependent de...