An efficient parallel strategy for computing K-terminal reliability and finding most vital edge in 2-trees and partial 2-trees

The authors develop a parallel strategy to compute K-terminal reliability in 2-trees and partial 2-trees. They also solve the problem of finding the most vital edge with respect to K-terminal reliability in partial 2-trees. The algorithms take O(log n) time with C(m,n) processors on a CRCW PRAM, where C(m,n) is the number of processors required to find connected components of a graph with m edges and n vertices in logarithmic time.