Title :
Reliability Evaluation of Multi-State Two-Stage Directed Network Systems by Using Combined Stochastic Process Methods and Universal Generating Function
Author :
Sun, Haizhen ; Wang, Liying
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Phys., Shijiazhuang Railway Inst., Shijiazhuang, China
Abstract :
Multi-state two-stage directed network systems can be used to model the performance of pipeline systems such as water supply network,gas supply network,oil transformation network etc..To overcome the"dimension damnation"-huge number of system states and reduce the complexity of computation in the process of reliability evaluation,a method which is based on the combination of the universal generating function (UGF) technique and random process methods is presented.A numerical example is given to illustrate the proposed method.
Keywords :
Markov processes; computational complexity; pipelines; reliability theory; combined stochastic process; computation complexity; dimension damnation; multistate two stage directed network system; pipeline system; reliability evaluation; universal generating function; Availability; Joining processes; Markov processes; Media; Pipelines;
Conference_Titel :
Database Technology and Applications (DBTA), 2010 2nd International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6975-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6977-2
DOI :
10.1109/DBTA.2010.5658967