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
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;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2005.10030
