Abstract: In this paper, we study the reliability measures of a repairable system with M operating units, W warm standby units, and R repairmen in which switching failures and reboot delay are considered. It is assumed that there is a significant failure probability q in the switching process. Failure times of an operating unit and of a standby unit are assumed to be exponentially distributed w...

BACKGROUND The 10-Meter Walk Tests (10MWT) and the 6-Minute Walk Test (6MinWT) are applied to assess gait capacity in paediatric patients. To better objectify changes in qualitative aspects of gait, temporo-spatial parameters like stride length or step symmetry could be simultaneously assessed with a GAITRite system. Reliability has not yet been evaluated in a heterogeneous sample of children w...

In this paper we focus on computational aspects of network reliability importance measure evaluation. It is a well known fact that most network reliability problems are NP-hard and therefore there is a significant gap between theoretical analysis and the ability to compute different reliability parameters for large or even moderate networks. In this paper we present two very efficient combinato...

The Block Shift Network (BSN) is a new topology for interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems. BSN is a class of networks defined by several parameters, and has a constant number of links/node for some given parameters. Many popular networks such as the hypercube, the shuffle-exchange, and the complete networks, are instances of the BSN for different parameters. Performance of BSN has ...

Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) are design to provide an effective communication in switching. Shuffle-exchange networks (SENs) have been widely considered as practical interconnection systems due to their size of it switching elements (SEs) and uncomplicated configuration. In this paper, the relationship between reliability performance and number of network size are compared in shuf...