Service reliability and performance in grid system with star topology

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-46

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Dai, Yuan Shun ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid system; Service reliability; Service time; Subtask distribution; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

GRID SYSTEM; SERVICE RELIABILITY; SERVICE TIME; SUBTASK DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 33748289488     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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