Comprehensive Reliability Assessment Technique of Telecommunication Networks Equipment with Reducible Structure

Reliability Assessment of Telecommunications Equipment

This thesis studies the reliability of telecommunications equipment, its components, and the systems made using those components. Special attention is paid to creating stronger links between the reliability analyses performed at different hierarchy levels. The thesis starts with a temperature derating study. It is found out that the generic handbook based procedures may not always be very attra...

Efficient Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Telecommunication Networks

Telecommunication Network Reliability

A comprehensive reliability assessment of quantitative diffusion tensor tractography

Diffusion tensor tractography is increasingly used to examine structural connectivity in the brain in various conditions, but its test-retest reliability is understudied. The main purposes of this study were to evaluate 1) the reliability of quantitative measurements of diffusion tensor tractography and 2) the effect on reliability of the number of gradient sampling directions and scan repetiti...

A Reliability Analysis of Local Telecommunication Switches

This paper presents a reliability analysis of Local Exchange Carrier telecommunication switches in the United States, based upon empirical data. Telecommunication switch outage statistics are analyzed for a multiyear period, allowing examination into switch failure frequency, causes, and trends. Failure categories are created by reported outage cause codes, including human error, design error, ...