ABSTRACT
Standby is an important redundancy technique for reliability enhancement, where hot standby, cold standby, and warm standby are three typical standby techniques. Since warm standby can achieve less energy consumption compared with hot standby and shorter leading time compared with cold standby, it has been extensively utilized in engineering systems. This chapter proposes motivated by practical engineering systems, a demand-based warm standby system (DBWSS) with multistate common bus performance sharing. The DBWSS denotes a system where the modes of its components are dependent on system demand. The decision diagram techniques have been successfully utilized in the reliability evaluation of systems with warm standby. The multi-valued decision diagram technique is developed to be applied to a DBWSS with multistate common bus performance sharing. The reliability for the proposed system is the summation of all of the occurrence probabilities of the paths leading to a reliable system.
