In various industries, system availability assessment has been extensively investigated.
Particularly, a stable power supply system is essential and critical in many service systems …

Components in cold-standby state are usually assumed to be as good as new when they are
activated. However, even in a standby environment, the components will suffer from …

Reliability improvement is a major industrial concern. A commonly known approach to
improve the reliability of a system is the so-called 'redundancy strategy'in which redundant …

To improve the system reliability while conserving the limited system resources, cold
standby sparing is often used. In computing tasks, because active components fail randomly …

This article presents a new reliability model and the development of its analytical solution for
a warm standby redundant configuration with units that are originally operated in active …

As a common practice in computing-related applications, checkpointing is used to facilitate
an effective system recovery in the case of the occurrence of failures. Checkpoints are …

Developing analytical availability models for k-out-of-n: G warm standby repairable systems
with many nonidentical components is tedious and error-prone, requiring specification of the …

It has been shown that mode transfers can effectively balance the resource consumption
and restoration time of standby systems. However, the existing methods assumed unlimited …

In this article, an efficient method is proposed for exact reliability evaluation of a special
class of Phased-Mission Systems (PMSs) containing multiple k-out-of-n subsystems, each of …

This paper describes and demonstrates a solution methodology that determines optimal
design configurations that maximize the reliability of a wide range of non-repairable …