Assessing Required Levels of Redundancy for Composite Safety/Mission Critical Systems

Rami Debouk; Joseph Wysocki

doi:10.4271/2004-01-1664

2004-03-08

Assessing Required Levels of Redundancy for Composite Safety/Mission Critical Systems 2004-01-1664

We investigate and analyze the concept of “shared redundancy” and its application to the design of architectures that integrate multiple safety/mission critical functions or subsystems. The analysis is based on considering different design alternatives with varying levels of physical redundancy of the components constituting the functions or subsystems. Under a set of assumptions, we show that the overall system reliability and availability in a shared redundancy based architecture can be improved without increasing the levels of physical redundancy for the components employed at the subsystem level. However, such an improvement will be limited by the component(s) with the minimal level of redundancy.

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Assessing Required Levels of Redundancy for Composite Safety/Mission Critical Systems 2004-01-1664

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