| CPC H04L 41/5025 (2013.01) [H04L 41/065 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method for determining network topologies, the method comprising:
generating, with one or more processors, a set of probabilistic failures for a network topology based on one or more failure generation rules and one or more failure rates;
determining, with the one or more processors, key network failures of the set of probabilistic failures based on a failure-flow impact for respective probabilistic failures in the set of probabilistic failures, the key network failures being a subset of the set of probabilistic failures, wherein the key network failures are associated with respective failure-flow impacts that cause an unrouted fraction of network traffic of the network topology to be greater than a threshold; and
generating, with the one or more processors, the network topology based on the key network failures.
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