Abstract
This paper introduces: a) Joint Reliability Importance (JRI) of two edges in an undirected network, and b) concepts of Joint Failure Importance (JFI) and Marginal Failure Importance (MFI), duals of JRI & MRI, respectively,. The JRI of two edges in an undirected network is represented by the Marginal Reliability Importance (MRI) of each edge in subnetworks. Some relationships between JRI & MRI, JRI & JFI, and JFI & MFI are presented. From these relationships, we show that: a) JRI is an appropriate quantitative measure of interactions of two edges in a network w.r.t. Source-to-Terminal Reliability, and b) the sign of JRI of two edges can be determined without computing the JRI of these two edges in some special cases.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 17-23 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Reliability |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1993 |
Keywords
- Joint failure importance
- Joint reliability importance
- Marginal failure importance
- Marginal reliability importance
- Undirected network