DocumentCode
1183582
Title
Efficient computation of multi-component failure stratum probabilities
Author
Pándi, Zolt ; Tacca, Marco ; Fumagalli, Andrea
Author_Institution
Dept. of Telecommun., Budapest Tech. Univ., Hungary
Volume
9
Issue
10
fYear
2005
Firstpage
939
Lastpage
941
Abstract
The manuscript presents a simple method to compute the probability of multi-component failures of any arbitrary multiplicity under the assumption that individual component failures in the system are statistically independent. In addition, the proposed method permits to determine the stratum probabilities for stratified sampling with linear complexity both in the number of components and in the number of strata.
Keywords
probability; sampling methods; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network reliability; availability; multicomponent failure; network reliability; probability computation; reliability estimation; sampling method; stratum probability; Availability; Computational complexity; Convolution; Failure analysis; Independent component analysis; Polynomials; Probability; Robustness; Sampling methods;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7798
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2005.10030
Filename
1515676
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