Reliability modeling of networked control systems using dynamic flowgraph methodology

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1202-1209

  Al Dabbagh, Ahmad W ^a   Lu, Lixuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic flowgraph methodology; Networked control system; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC METHOD; FLOW GRAPH; MULTI STATE; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; RECENT TRENDS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY MODELING; TIME DEPENDENCY;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 78049446660     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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