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Chapter 2
Concepts Related to
System Availability
Research on instantaneous availability involves some basic theories and methods
with respect to reliability engineering, reliability mathematics, random process,
particle swarm algorithms, and so forth. In order to more easily understand the
research on instantaneous availability, this chapter presents a brief introduction to
the basic concept of availability; definition of main availability parameters; basic
concepts of reliability, maintenance, and supportability, definitions of their main
parameters, basic models for availability, and so on.
2.1 Basic Knowledge about Reliability
2.1.1 Basic ...