Standby mode transfer schedule minimizing downtime of 1-out-of-N system with storage

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Predetermined standby mode transfers in 1-out-of-N systems with resource-constrained elements

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Optimization of predetermined standby mode transfers in 1-out-of-N: G systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Warm standby redundancy is an important fault-tolerant design technique for improving the
reliability of many systems used in life-critical or mission-critical applications. Traditional …

Optimal choice of standby modes in 1-out-of-N system with respect to mission reliability and cost

G Levitin, L Xing, S Peng, Y Dai - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper considers a new type of optimization problems, the optimal standby mode
selection problem in 1-out-of-N: G warm standby systems where multiple standby mode …

Optimal design of hybrid redundant systems with delayed failure-driven standby mode transfer

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Standby redundancy is a design technique that has been widely adopted to enhance system
reliability and achieve fault tolerance in many critical applications. In this paper, we consider …

Optimal periodic inspections and activation sequencing policy in standby systems with condition-based mode transfer

Y Dai, G Levitin, L Xing - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper models a hybrid standby system subject to periodic inspections and condition-
based standby mode transfers during a mission. At the beginning of the mission only one …

Optimal sequencing of elements activation in 1-out-of-n warm standby system with storage

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the rich body of research on reliability analysis and optimization of warm standby
systems, the existing works have mostly failed to consider the practical storage component …

Dynamic mode transfer scheduling for degrading standby system considering load-sharing characteristic

YH Lin, SJ Ruan, F Tao, Y Hu - IEEE Systems Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For safety-critical industrial systems, standby redundancy is widely applied to guarantee
safety requirements. With the advancement of sensing technology, real-time system …

Joint optimization of mission abort and component switching policies for multistate warm standby systems

X Zhao, X Chai, J Sun, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety-critical systems have been widely applied in various practical engineering fields to
perform specific missions. Failures of such systems will lead to significant damage, thus …

Influence of storage on mission success probability of m-out-of-n standby systems with reusable elements

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that elements reusing through preventive replacements is
beneficial in enhancing the mission success probability (MSP) of standby systems. While …