Optimal allocation of active redundancies in r-out-of-n systems

By Taizhong Hu, Yashi Wang. 2009

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Abstract Shaked and Shanthikumar [1992. Optimal allocation of resources to nodes of series and parallel systems. Advances in Applied Probability 24, 894–914] and Singh and Singh [1997a. Optimal allocation of resources to nodes of series systems with respect to failure-rate ordering. Naval Research Logistics 44, 147–152] considered the problem of optimal allocation of K active redundancies to n independent and identical components of a series system with respect to the usual stochastic order and to the hazard rate order, respectively. In this note we consider the problems of optimal allocation of a r -out-of- n system with respect to the usual stochastic order and of optimal allocation of a series system with respect to the reversed hazard rate order. It is shown that for each r , by balancing the allocation of active redundancies one can stochastically maximize the lifetime of the resulting r -out-of- n system, and that there exists an optimal allocation to optimize the reversed hazard rate function of the system for n = 2 while such an optimal allocation does not exist for n > 2 .

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• Optimal Allocation of Active Redundancies to k-out-of-n Systems with Heterogeneous Components (2010, background): “This improves the corresponding one in Hu and Wang (2009) and serves as a nice supplement to that in Misra, Dhariyal and Gupta (2009) as well.”