IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1968 · 14 citations · 3 references
EngineeringSystems EngineeringFault-tolerant ComputingFault-tolerant SystemsMaintenance EngineeringAvailability EngineeringRedundancy ManagementRedundancy TechniquesReliability ModelingReliability-based DesignReliable System DesignAsymptotic TheoryMean Time To FailureRedundant Systems DesignRepair Time AnalysisRepairabilitySystem RedundancySystem Reliability ModelingTime-to-failure Analysis
The mean time to system failure (MTSF) for a 2-out-of-n system with repair is intuitively derived. The improvement factor, the ratio of the MTSF for a 2 out of n system with repair to that system without repair, is evaluated and its asymptotic behavior is studied.
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