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Two-unit warm standby redundant systems have been investigated extensively in the past. The most general model is the one in which both the lifetime and repair time distributions of the units are arbitrary. However the study of standby systems with more than two units, though very important, has received much less attention, possibly because of the built-in difficulties in analyzing them. Such systems have been studied only when either the lifetime or the repair time is exponentially distributed. When both these distributions are general, the problem appears to be intractable even in the case of cold standby systems. The present contribution is an improvement in the state of art in the sense that a three unit warm standby system is shown to be capable of comprehensive analysis. In particular we show that there are imbedded renewal points that render the analysis possible. Using these imbedded renewal points we obtain the reliability and availability functions.
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Srinivasan, S.K., Subramanian, R. Reliability analysis of a three unit warm standby redundant system with repair. Ann Oper Res 143, 227–235 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-006-7384-z
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