MATHEMATICAL-ANALYSIS OF A TRANSITIONAL COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

This paper investigates a mathematical model for a computer communicat ion system of two units-a computer and a controller. Each unit has n c omponents, i.e. the computer has an n-processor while the controller h as n converters. The amount of change in the computer or controller de pends on the change in the components of these two units. These change s bring the system to either a partially failed state or a completely (totally) failed state. Failure rates are assumed to be negative expon ential; recovery and repair rates are arbitrary. Various cost-related reliability measures have been studied using the regenerative point te chnique.