Reliability evaluation of a communication system considering a multistate model

✍ Scribed by Usha Sharma; S.C. Panigrahi; R.B. Misra

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 320 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0026-2714
• DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(90)90174-l

✦ Synopsis

Alxstraet--The methods most often suggested for reliability evaluation of communication systems/flow networks consider two states, namely the good state and the bad state. This paper considers multistate modelling of the network elements. The states which permit a flow less than the maximum assigned capacity are assumed as parallel and mutually exclusive elements in the network. A method is proposed for reliability evaluation of a communication network considering multistate modelling of the network elements. The proposed method has been implemented on a computer and results obtained using the proposed method are compared with the existing methods for the two state model conditions.