Modelling a general standby system and evaluation of its performance

✍ Scribed by Ji Hwan Cha; Jie Mi; Won Young Yun

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1524-1904
• DOI: 10.1002/asmb.704

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Redundancy or standby is a technique that has been widely applied to improving system reliability and availability in system design. In this paper, a general method for modelling standby system is proposed and system performance measures are derived. It is shown that the proposed general standby system includes the cases of cold, hot and warm standby systems with units of exponential distribution, which were studied in the literature, as special cases. An optimal allocation problem for a standby system is also discussed. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.