ABSTRACT
Clearly, connection and disconnection times of network components depend on two more factors: the number of repair teams assigned to the network maintenance, and the repair policy implemented. As to the first factor, the mean disconnection times of individual components increase as the number of repair teams decreases, and vice versa. If there are fewer than N repair teams, a component’s repair may not start immediately after its failure, but the average delay decreases along with the increasing number of repair teams, and is equal to zero if this number reaches N. However, such case should be considered only for theoretical purposes, because in practice the number of repair teams is usually considerably smaller than the number of all components. For example, the mean disconnection times of components computed for N repair teams can be used as lower bounds of these mean times in case of less than N repair teams.
