Network reliability modeling under stochastic process of component failures

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 917-929

  Zarezadeh, Somayeh ^a   Asadi, Majid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

D spectrum; Increasing failure rate; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; Record values; Stochastic ordering; Stochastic precedence; System signature; Two state networks.

Indexed keywords

D-SPECTRUM; INCREASING FAILURE RATE; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; RECORD VALUES; STOCHASTIC ORDER; STOCHASTIC PRECEDENCE; SYSTEM SIGNATURE; TWO-STATE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MIXTURES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84890438155     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2013.2285054     Document Type: Article

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