Chaonan Wang (UMass Dartmouth), “Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Systems and Networks” (2014)

You are here

Inside Signal Processing Newsletter Home Page

Top Reasons to Join SPS Today!

1. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
2. Signal Processing Digital Library*
3. Inside Signal Processing Newsletter
4. SPS Resource Center
5. Career advancement & recognition
6. Discounts on conferences and publications
7. Professional networking
8. Communities for students, young professionals, and women
9. Volunteer opportunities
10. Coming soon! PDH/CEU credits
Click here to learn more.

News and Resources for Members of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Chaonan Wang (UMass Dartmouth), “Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Systems and Networks” (2014)

Chaonan Wang (UMass Dartmouth), “Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Systems and Networks”, Prof. Liudong Xing (2014)

Reliability and sensitivity analysis are important tasks for critical system design, tuning, and maintenance activities. This dissertation work is concerned with developing and extending effective and practical algorithms for modeling and analyzing reliability and component sensitivity for complex systems and networks. Combinatorial methods were proposed to analyze reliability of single-phase and multi-phase systems subject to competing failure propagation and isolation effects. Efficient approximation methods were developed to analyze large-scale cold-standby systems with components having different types of time-to-failure distributions. This dissertation work also addressed communication reliability (CR) for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Specifically, metrics for the comparative analysis of infrastructure communication reliability (ICR) of WSN with different topologies and different data delivery models were proposed and refined. Based on the ICR analysis, component sensitivity analysis was further performed for guiding network reliability improvement activity. A phased-mission framework was also proposed for CR analysis which combines infrastructure communication and application communication. Explicit and implicit methods were proposed for the multi-phase CR analysis of WSN subject to probabilistic common-cause failures.

For details, please contact the author or visit the thesis page.

Table of Contents:

SPS on Twitter

  • DEADLINE EXTENDED: The 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing is now accepting… https://t.co/NLH2u19a3y
  • ONE MONTH OUT! We are celebrating the inaugural SPS Day on 2 June, honoring the date the Society was established in… https://t.co/V6Z3wKGK1O
  • The new SPS Scholarship Program welcomes applications from students interested in pursuing signal processing educat… https://t.co/0aYPMDSWDj
  • CALL FOR PAPERS: The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing is now seeking submissions for a Special… https://t.co/NPCGrSjQbh
  • Test your knowledge of signal processing history with our April trivia! Our 75th anniversary celebration continues:… https://t.co/4xal7voFER

IEEE SPS Educational Resources

IEEE SPS Resource Center

IEEE SPS YouTube Channel