A reliability block diagramming tool to describe networks

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 141-145

  Sahinoglu, Mehmet ^a   Ramamoorthy, C V ^b,e   Smith, Alice E ^c,f   Dengiz, Berna ^d,f  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Troy State University Montgomery ^*  (United States)

^f AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex; Compression; Encode Decode; Reliability Block Diagram; S t Reliability; Series Parallel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TOPOLOGY; COMPACTION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPLEX; COMPRESSION; ENCODE-DECODE; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAM; S-T RELIABILITY; SERIES-PARALLEL; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; RELIABILITY;

EID: 2342544673     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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