On sensitivity of steady-state probabilities of a cold redundant system to the shapes of life and repair time distributions of its elements

The problem of sensitivity of a redundant system’s reliability characteristics to shapes of their input distributions is considered. In Efrosinin and Rykov, Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling, 2014, [1] an analytical form for dependence of a two-unit cold standby redundant system reliability characteristics on life and repair time input distributions was obtained and investigated for the case of exponential distribution of one of the time lengths. In the current chapter this study is extended with the help of simulation method to a general case of both non-exponential distributions. Comparison of analytic and simulation results was carried out. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018