Reliability evaluation for acyclic transmission networks of multi-state elements with delays

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acyclic network; Multi state system; Retransmission delay; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAPH THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ACYCLIC TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; MULTI-STATE ELEMENTS; RETRANSMISSION DELAY; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0042674273     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.813162     Document Type: Article

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