Monte Carlo Sampling Plan for Estimating Reliability Parameters and Related Functions

摘要

The author considers an undirected network G with node set V and arc set E = (1,...,n) where arcs fail randomly and independently. Let T be a subset of V and let M sub k denote the number of ways that all the nodes of T are connected (T-connectivity) with exactly k operating arcs and n - k failed arcs. This paper describes a sampling plan for estimating (M sub k) and linear functions of these parameters, including the T-connectedness reliability function g(p) for common failure probability 1 - p.