Paper Info
Title
Reliability Analysis of Phased-Mission System With Independent Component Repairs
Abstract
This paper proposes a hierarchical modeling approach for the reliability analysis of phased-mission systems with repairable components. The components at the lower level are described by continuous time Markov chains which allow complex component failure/repair behaviors to be modeled. At the upper level, there is a combinatorial model whose structure function is represented by a binary decision diagram (BDD). Two BDD ordering strategies, and consequently two evaluation algorithms, are proposed to compute the phased-mission system (PMS) reliability based on Markov models for components, and a BDD representation of system structure function. The performance of the two evaluation algorithms is compared. One algorithm generates a smaller BDD, while the other has shorter execution time. Several examples, and experiments are presented in the paper to illustrate the application, and the advantages of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TR.2007.903268
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Keywords
Field
DocType
bdd ordering strategy,binary decision diagrams,continuous time markov chain,reliability analysis,independent component repair,evaluation algorithm,phased-mission system,independent component analysis,binary decision diagram,continuous-time markov chain,reliability,hierarchical modeling approach,complex component failure-repair behavior,maintenance engineering,reliability theory,markov processes,hierarchical modeling,system structure function,hierarchical model,structure function,markov model
Markov process,Continuous-time Markov chain,Markov model,Computer science,Markov chain,Binary decision diagram,Independent component analysis,Maintenance engineering,Reliability engineering,Reliability theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
3
0018-9529
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.80
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dazhi Wang119412.64
Trivedi, K.S.27721700.23