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Reliability analysis of cold standby system with scheduled backups

  • Qingqing Zhai
  • , Liudong Xing
  • , Rui Peng
  • , Jun Yang

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Abstract

Cold standby technique is one of the most commonly applied techniques to achieve high reliability requirement of modern products. This paper studies a 1-out-of-n cold standby system, where scheduled backups are performed to ensure that a standby component can take over the task effectively when the online component fails. Since a component may fail during switching from the cold standby state to the online state, effect of imperfect switch is also considered. Lifetimes of components in the considered system can follow arbitrary distributions and are not necessarily identical. Backup intervals are deterministic but can be non-identical. A multivalued decision diagram (MDD)-based analytical approach is proposed to evaluate reliability of 1-out-of-n cold standby systems subject to scheduled backups. Illustrative examples are provided. Correctness of the proposed method is verified usi ng Monte Carlo simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRAMS 2015 - 61st Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Proceedings and Tutorials 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479967025
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 May 2015
Event61st Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2015 - Palm Harbor, United States
Duration: 26 Jan 201529 Jan 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
Volume2015-May
ISSN (Print)0149-144X

Conference

Conference61st Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalm Harbor
Period26/01/1529/01/15

Keywords

  • 1-out-of-n
  • cold standby
  • imperfect switch
  • multi-valued decision diagram
  • scheduled backups

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