• DocumentCode
    893674
  • Title

    Reliability & Availability of Duplex Systems: Some Simple Models

  • Author

    Ng, Spencer W.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    295
  • Lastpage
    300
  • Abstract
    The reliability and availability of a system can be enhanced by redundancy and repair. The reliability and availability are shown for some simple models of duplex systems, by using Markov methods. All transition rates between states are constant.
  • Keywords
    Availability; Delay; Failure analysis; Logistics; Personnel; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Telephony;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1986.4335436
  • Filename
    4335436