An Efficient Method for Reliability Evaluation of a General Network

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-27, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 206-211

  Rai, Suresh ^a   Aggarwal, K K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Exclusive operator; Path enumeration; Symbolic reliability evaluation; System success determinant

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0017999081     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1978.5220325     Document Type: Article

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