Existing research has been concentrated on improving the reliability of a distributed
computing system through optimizing tasks allocation, providing software redundancy and …

Performance-based balanced systems (PBSs) are widely used as critical equipment in many
fields, so their reliability assessment has become a hot topic. Taking the battery pack PBS as …

Modern technological advances require unprecedented reliability improvements in
engineering systems. This is especially true for the numerous complex structures used as …

Multi-state phased mission systems (MS-PMSs) with common bus performance sharing
widely exist in practical engineering, such as intelligent transmission systems and power …

With the increasing interconnection of the power grids, the imbalanced distribution between
power generation and demand in different areas has been effectively alleviated. In practical …

Existing research on the linear sliding window system (SWS) has focused on modeling and
extending to different system structures. Little research has devoted to analyzing the …

From previous studies on performance sharing systems, the system structure is considered
to be either series, or series-parallel, or k-out-of-n structure. To enrich the research and …

A multi-state star network with bi-level performance sharing mechanism is studied.
According to the proposed topology, the network consists of a main node, which occupies …

Phased-mission systems widely exist in many real-world systems such as communication
networks, aerospace and unmanned aerial vehicles. The reliability modeling and analysis of …

In a power grid system, generators may fail due to the internal structure and material
degradation caused by stress levels or work conditions. However, power grid systems may …