The steady-state behaviour of multistate monotone systems
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 21 (4) , 826-835
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3213699
Abstract
In this paper the steady-state behaviour of multistate monotone systems of multistate components is considered by applying the theory for stationary and synchronous processes with an embedded point process. After reviewing some general results on stationary availability, stationary interval availability and stationary mean interval performance probabilities, we concentrate on systems with independently working and separately maintained components. For this case an explicit formula is given for the mean time which the system in steady state sojourns in states not below a fixed critical level.Keywords
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