Active redundancy is an effective technique for improving the mission success probability.
However, more components simultaneously performing the mission implies higher cost and …

Motivated by real-world applications of cloud computing and unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), this paper models a heterogeneous 1-out-of-n standby system with n components …

Mode transfers have attracted attention from the standby system community as they can
effectively reduce system downtime. However, the existing models are not applicable to …

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 …

This paper, for the first time, models and optimizes the uploading and downloading pace
distribution in a production-dual storage system that must supply a certain demand during a …

Product storage is a crucial component of some engineering or technological systems.
Considering storage in the system reliability analysis has recently attracted research …

Despite the crucial role of product storage played in the operation of real-world systems,
only very few reliability studies have considered this component in the system reliability …

Considerable research efforts have recently been devoted to the reliability analysis and
optimization of production systems with product storage. The existing models, however …

In real-world mission-critical applications like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the standby
sparing design method is typically applied to enhance the mission success probability …

Motivated by real-world applications like wireless sensor networks powered by photovoltaic
sources, this paper models a linear consecutively connected system whose nodes form a …