Reliability Evaluation by Network Decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-31, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 355-358

  Aggarwal, K K ^a   Chopra, Y C ^b   Bajwa, J S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Connection matrix; Minimal cutsets; Network decomposition; Reliability logic graph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS - RELIABILITY;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 0020190750     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1982.5221375     Document Type: Article

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