Analysis of a two unit warm standby system (Q798560)

Two-unit warm standby redundant repairable systems have been studied extensively in the past [see e.g. the bibliography of \textit{S. Osaki} and \textit{T. Nakagawa}, IEEE Trans. Reliab. R-25, 284-287 (1976; Zbl 0336.90023)]. In most of the attempts the central quantity of interest is the Laplace transform of the availability of the system. However, interval reliability is another measure which is of importance in the evaluation of a system and combines the measures reliability and availability [see \textit{R. E. Barlow} and \textit{F. Proschan}, ''Mathematical theory of reliability'' (1965; Zbl 0132.393)]. This paper obtains the interval reliability of a two-unit warm standby system. The reliability and availability of the system are also obtained as special cases.