Reliability Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Systems—Effect of Variability in Failure Rates

Ravishankar K. Iyer

doi:10.1109/TC.1984.1676412

Reliability Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Systems—Effect of Variability in Failure Rates

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In this correspondence models for the variation in system reliability due to uncertainty in failure rate estimation are developed. Two techniques are proposed. The first is exact and is based on the complete distribution of the failure rate. The second is an approximation and employs only the first and second moments. The application of these models in reliability analysis is then discussed and illustrated with numerical examples.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	197-200
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computers
Volume	C-33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.1984.1676412
State	Published - Feb 1984

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Iyer, R. K. (1984). Reliability Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Systems—Effect of Variability in Failure Rates. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-33(2), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.1984.1676412

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