| Article ID: | iaor20101247 |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 5-6 |
| Start Page Number: | 756 |
| End Page Number: | 767 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Journal: | Mathematical and Computer Modelling |
| Authors: | Bieth Bruno, Hong Liang, Sarkar Jyotirmoy |
| Keywords: | standby system |
A continuously monitored one-unit standby system is perfectly repaired either by an in-house regular repairer within a predetermined patience time, or else by a visiting expert repairer, who repairs all failed units. For arbitrary life- and repair times, we present a procedure to find the limiting proportions of time the system stays in each state using extended semi-Markov processes, whence we can find other limiting characteristics.