System Reliability Assessment Based on Failure Propagation Processes

Table 4

The measures of edges.

Measure	Equation	Notation
The probability of failure		is the number of failures of edge ; is the total operating time of edge .
Fault propagation probability		is the number of shortest paths crossing a given edge .
Connection strength		is the number of times that operation states change in the statistical time; indicates the number of times that operation states change arising from in the statistical time; is an empirical contact duration of the type of functional dependencies between components and .