Title :
Reliability & Availability of Duplex Systems: Some Simple Models
Author_Institution :
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1986.4335436
