Note on reliabilities of parallel system with cascading failure

Author

Qian, Cunhua ; Bao, Lei ; Nakamura, Syouji ; Nakagawa, Toshio

Author_Institution

Coll. of Manage. Sci. & Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-24 July 2009

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

301

Abstract

This paper considers an extended parallel system with cascading failure: compared with the conventional parallel system with independent failure, the factor that cascading failure could reduce reliability of the system due to redistribution of the workload. Reliability measures of this model are derived, using the theory of stochastic process. To counteract the impact of cascading failure, a preventive maintenance policy is put forward into this paper. Optimal maintenance policy which minimizes the expected cost is derived. Finally, some examples and some discussions are made.

Keywords

failure analysis; minimisation; preventive maintenance; queueing theory; redundancy; reliability theory; statistical distributions; cascading failure; expected cost minimization; independent failure; optimal maintenance policy; parallel redundant system; preventive maintenance policy; reliability analysis; server system; stochastic process theory; workload redistribution; Cost function; Educational institutions; Marketing management; Network servers; Paper technology; Power system faults; Power system protection; Preventive maintenance; Reliability theory; Stochastic processes; cascading failure; maintenance policy; parallel system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, 2009. ICRMS 2009. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4903-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4905-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRMS.2009.5270186

Filename

5270186