Finding the probability that there is an operational path between two designated vertices in a probabilistic computer network is known to be NP-hard. Edge-packing is an efficient strategy to compute a lower bound on the probability. We prove that finding the set of paths that produces the best edge-packing lower bound is NP-hard.
Citation
Venkatesh Raman. Finding The Best Edge-Packing for Two-Terminal Reliability is NP-hard[J], Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Volume 009. 91-96. .