Min(max-PSD) and max(min-PSD) as lifetime distributions in network's reliability

Abstract

In our paper we describe the corresponding dynamic mathematical models to perform a comparative analysis of the reliability of two types of networks: serial-parallel and parallel-serial when the number of subnetworks is constant and the numbers of units in each sub-network are Power Series Distributed (PSD) random variables (r.v.), but also when the lifetimes are independent, identically distributed r.v. We shows that the lifetime distributions of such kind of networks leads us to two new families of distributions called Min(Max-PSD) and Max(Min-PSD) distributions. The formulas for calculating the reliability of the related networks it was deduced too. Sufficient conditions have been formulated for the serial-parallel network to always be more reliable than the parallel-serial network. Some graphically illustrated examples have been provided.