A reliability/availability simulation model for evaluating network systems.

[摘要] The simulator uses the Monte Carlo technique to quickly and accuratelyestimate the reliability and availability of complex network systems,Non-exponential failure and repair distributions are included in the model,as is standby redundancy and K out of N active redundancy. The program iseasy to use and will work on a large variety of computers and FORTRANcompilers. Some knowledge of FORTRAN is required to program thesimulator for each reliability network, The simulator is limited to the analysisof network systems, i.e, those systems whose logic can be fully represented bya reliability block diagram. The applicability of the model was demonstratedby the analysis of numerous systems in the aerospace and industrialenvironments. Validation of the model was accomplished by comparing theseresults with analytically determined values, or those from AMIR and SPARwhere an analytic solution was impossible.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand