Abstract:

The recent paper published in IJPE by Tripathy et al. [1] presented a new method based on self-generating, non-redundant and disjoint cutsets to evaluate the three important reliability measures, viz., two-terminal, all-terminal and k-terminal. Authors claim that their algorithm is much more efficient as it saves the overhead of disjointing process and redundant terms removal than the existing Sum-of-Disjoint-Product (SDP) form based algorithms available in the literature. However, we observe several discrepancies in the results generated by their proposed algorithm on the considered benchmark networks and even on the illustrative example taken to describe the algorithm.