Reliability of Systems with Consecutive Minimal Cutsets
Jeyaveerasingam George Shanthikumar · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1987
A property of a system's cutsets called ``consecutive minimal cutsets'' is defined. A simple algorithm is presented for computing exactly the reliability of systems with this property. A generalized class of consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems, called consecutively connected systems, is shown to have this property.