AVAILABILITY OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE AND COMPUTING LONG-RUN MTBF AND RELIABILITY FOR MARKOV SYSTEMS

摘要

Steady-state availability has long been a popular descriptor of effectiveness for repairable systems because it captures both the operability and repairability aspects of the system. A related measure effectiveness of the availability of continuous service, which is particularly relevant for safety critical applications. In this article, two different measures of this quantity are described for a repairable system whose state is described by an ergodic finite-state-space continuous-time Markov chain.