UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, TAXILA

Department of Telecommunication Engineering

EE-424: Reliability in Telecommunication Systems

Assignment 01-CLO2

Total Marks: 05 Date: 23-02-2023

Name: _____________________ Reg. No.: _________________________

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Instructions:
1. Use the given space to answer the question(s). Additional sheets may be attached if necessary.
2. The deadline for submission of the assignment will be one week from the above-mentioned date.
3. Late submission of assignment will result in zero marks.
4. Plagiarism of any sort will result in zero mark.
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Question Marks Obtained

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Q1 [02 marks]: Consider that the time to failures is exponentially distributed. When MTTF is less
than infinity, i.e., MTTF < ∞, then, the following relationship holds
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𝐌𝐓𝐓𝐅 = ' 𝑹(𝒕)𝒅𝒕
𝟎
where 𝑹(𝒕) is the reliability function. Then, how would you interpret the following curve.

R (t )

t
Q2 [03 marks]: Considering the time to failures have exponentially distributed probability density
function, i.e.,

where, 𝝀 is the failure rate. Furthermore, if MTTF < ∞, derive the following relationship
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𝐌𝐓𝐓𝐅 = ' 𝑹(𝒙)𝒅𝒕
𝟎
Recall that 𝑹(𝒙) = 𝟏 − 𝑭(𝒙), where 𝑭(𝒙) is the cumulative density function.