A unified way of comparing the reliability of coherent systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-43

  Mi, Jie ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active redundancy; Coherent system; Node criticality; Optimal allocation; Standby redundancy; Stochastic ordering

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

STANDBY REDUNDANCY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0037334345     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.805777     Document Type: Article

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