• DocumentCode
    1321103
  • Title

    On the Calculation of System Downtime Distribution

  • Author

    Li, Timothy J.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM System Development Laboratory, D-574, B3-211, P.O. Box 120, Neighborhood Road, Kingston, N.Y. 12401.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1971
  • Firstpage
    38
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    Muth´s expression for downtime is evaluated for two cases: 1) when repair and failure rates are constant, straightforward integration is used; and 2) for unspecified distributions, a numerical method is shown and the error term is studied.
  • Keywords
    Computer aided software engineering; Convergence of numerical methods; Convolution; Distribution functions; Exponential distribution; Finite wordlength effects; Probability; Reliability engineering; System performance; System testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1971.5216072
  • Filename
    5216072