This page contains technical reports which are referenced in published papers. The postcript and pdf of the technical reports are available at ftp://ftp-eel.upc.es/techreports.

 

    V. Suñé and J. A. Carrasco, "A Failure Distance Based Method to Bound the Reliability of Non-Repairable Fault-Tolerant Systems without the Knowledge of Minimal Cuts," Electronics Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical Report DMSD_99_1, March 2001, complete version of paper with same title published in IEEE Trans. on Reliability.

 

    J. A. Carrasco, "Transient Analysis of Large Markov Models with Absorbing States using Regenerative Randomization," Electronics Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical Report DMSD_99_2, April 2005, complete version of paper with same title published in Communications in Statistics−Simulation and Computation.

 

    J. Temsamani and J. A. Carrasco, "A Generalized Method for the Transient Analysis of Markov Models of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Deferred Repair," Electronics Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical Report DMSD_2004_1, March 2005, complete version of paper with same title published in Communications in Statistics−Simulation and Computation.

 

    J. A. Carrasco, "An Efficient and Numerically Stable Method for Computing Bounds for the Interval Availability Distribution," Electronics Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical Report DMSD_2005_1, July 2005.

 

    J. A. Carrasco, "Simulation of Steady-state Availability Models of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Deferred Repair,” Electronics Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical report DMSD_2006_1, complete version of paper with title “Adapted Importance Sampling Schemes for the Simulation of Depedability Models of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Deferred Repair,” published in Proc. 39th  IEEE Annual Simulation Symp.