近年來，利用隨機網路模型來模擬系統的運作已被廣泛地被運用,
而在隨機網路模型中，網路可靠度常被視為一項重要的績效指標。
實際上，當網路規模複雜時，精確地計算出網路可靠度是行不通的。
因此利用蒙地卡羅模擬法來估計網路可靠度則成為較可行的作法，
但是普通的模擬將耗費巨大的抽樣成本，
因此變異數縮減技術即是在不增加抽樣成本的情況下，得到更為精確的統計數據。
本論文提出了一個簡單遞迴重點和分層抽樣程序得到一個不偏且更精準的網路可靠度估計量。
在每個遞迴步驟中，利用重點抽樣不分配樣本給網路狀態已經決定的子網路，
而預先分配兩個樣本給未決定網路狀態的子網路，再利用比例分層抽樣分配剩餘的樣本，
如此加強遞迴分層抽樣的效果，得到更準確的不偏估計量和變異數的估計量。
實驗數據證實本論文所提出之簡易遞迴的重點和分層抽樣程序，
可達到顯著的變異數縮減效果，尤其是面臨高可靠度的隨機網路時。

Crude simulation for estimating reliability of a tochastic network often requires large sample size to obtain statistically significant results.
In this paper, we propose a simple recursive importance and stratified
sampling estimator which is shown to be unbiased and achieve smaller
variance. Preallocation of sampling efforts of size two to each
undetermined subnetwork on each stage makes it possible to estimate
the variance of the proposed estimator and significantly enhances
the effectiveness of variance reduction from stratification by
deferring the termination of recursive stratification. Experimental results show that the proposed estimator achieves significant
variance reduction, especially for highly reliable networks.

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