Survivability of series–parallel systems with multilevel protection

Edward Korczak, Gregory Levitin and Hanoch Ben Haim

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2005, vol. 90, issue 1, 45-54

Abstract: In this paper, we consider vulnerable systems which can have different states corresponding to different combinations of available elements composing the system. Each state can be characterized by a performance rate, which is the quantitative measure of a system's ability to perform its task. Both the impact of external factors (attack) and internal causes (failures) affect system survivability, which is determined as the probability of meeting a given demand.

Keywords: Survivability; Multilevel protection; Multi-state system; Universal generating function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.10.001

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