Title :
On the Calculation of System Downtime Distribution
Author_Institution :
IBM System Development Laboratory, D-574, B3-211, P.O. Box 120, Neighborhood Road, Kingston, N.Y. 12401.
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1971.5216072
