Reliability Assessment of Tethered High-Altitude Unmanned Telecommunication Platforms: K-Out-Of-N Reliability Models and Applications

本書系統地介紹了近年來在理論上關於「k-out-of-n系統」的主要研究成果及其在高空無人平台可靠性評估中的應用。書中提出的數學模型、方法和算法將對可靠性理論的發展以及基於無人機的空中通信網絡在5G及更高概念下的理論基礎做出重要貢獻。本書描述了對複雜的「k-out-of-n系統」進行研究的新數學方法和方法（基於可分解的半再生過程、模擬和機器學習方法以及庫存模型），這使得可以進行可靠性指標的數值計算。本書分為五章，每章開始時都總結了該章節中包含的主要定義和結果。本書的內容基於作者的原創成果，其中許多成果首次以書籍形式呈現。

Vladimir Vishnevsky is the Head of Telecommunication Networks Laboratory, the V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS), Moscow, Russia. Earlier, he was Vice-Director of the Institute of Information Transmission Problems of RAS (from 1990-2010) and the Head of the Laboratory with ICS RAS (from 1971-1990). He became Full Professor at the ICS RAS in 1989, and at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990.
He is Senior Member of the IEEE Communication Society, Chair of the Communications Society Chapter (COM19) of the IEEE Russia Section, member of the International Telecommunications Academy, and the New York Academy of Science. He received an engineering degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Russia, in 1971; a Ph.D. degree in queuing theory and telecommunication networks; and a D.Sc. degree in telecommunication networks from ICS RAS, in 1974 and 1988, respectively. Author of more than 400 papers in queuing theory and telecommunications, 12 books, and 20 patents for inventions, his research interests lie in the areas of computer systems and networks, queuing systems, telecommunications, discrete mathematics (extremal graph theory, mathematical programming), and wireless information transmission networks.
Professor Vishnevsky is General Chair of the International Conference on Distributed Computer and Communication Networks: Control, Computation, Communications and member of the Program Committee of several international conferences such as the International Congress on Ultra-Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications. He is also on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals such as the Automation and Remote Control, Advances in Systems Science and Applications, and Control Sciences. He is Project Leader of several international research projects related to the research and development of the next-generation networks by using tethered high-altitude unmanned platforms. In 2019, he was awarded the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation by the President of the Russian Federation.
Dharmaraja Selvamuthu is Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, since September 2020. He joined the institute in 2003. He is also Joint Faculty at the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, since 2013. He is appointed as Jaswinder and Tarvinder Chadha Chair Professor for teaching and research in the areas of operations research (from 2010-2015). He earned his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Presidency College, Chennai, in 1992; M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Anna University, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, in 1994; and Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he was Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA. From 2002 to 2003, he was Research Associate at the TRLabs, Winnipeg, Canada.
Vladimir Rykov is Full Professor at the Applied Mathematics and Computer Modeling Department of the Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University. He also is Full Professor at the Department of Probability Theory and Cyber Security, RUDN University, Russia, since 1990. He earned his D.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University, in 1990. His main research interests include controllable queueing systems and reliability theory.
Professor Rykov has been associated with Moscow Mathematical Society (Probability Theory Section), since 1968; Russian Actuarial Society, since 1995; Kappa Mu Epsilon; National Mathematics Honor Society; and Michigan Epsilon Chapter, since 2001. From 2001-2003, he wasGuest Professor at the Mathematical Statistics Department of the Mathematics and Science Faculty of the Kettering University, Flint, USA. He is Full Member of the International Academy of Informatization, since 1994; Gnedenko-Forum, the international group of experts on reliability and mathematical statistics; and the International Academy of Informatization. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Reliability: Theory and Applications journal and on the editorial board of several other peer-reviewed journals. Professor Rykov is also a program committee member of many international conferences such as Distributed Computer and Communication Networks, International Conference on Stochastic Methods, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, and others.
Dmitry Kozyrev is Senior Research Fellow at the Telecommunication Networks Laboratory of V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS), Moscow, Russia. He also is Associate Professor at the Department of Probability Theory and Cyber Security, RUDN University, Russia. He is former Vice-Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Communications Technology, RUDN University, Russia, from 2017-2019. Earlier, he was Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Probability and Informatics, RUDN University, from 2007-2013. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics, in 2005; M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from People's Friendship University of Russia, RUDN University, in 2007; and Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics, in 2013. His research interests are in applied probability, stochastic modeling and simulation of redundant systems, reliability assessment and performance analysis, sensitivity analysis, and the Internet of Things.
Author and coauthor of more than 100 scientific works, including 3 university textbooks and 1 research monograph, Dr. Kozyrev has served as Editor for several peer-reviewed journals: Automation and Remote Control, Reliability: Theory and Applications, MDPI Entropy, MDPI Mathematics, MDPI Symmetry, Control Sciences, Discrete and Continuous Models, and Applied Computational Science. He is editor of the proceedings of DCCN selected extended papers published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2019-2023) series and Communications in Computer and Information Science (2013-2023) series. He is also member of the organizing committee and technical program committee of several international conferences: Distributed Computer and Communication Networks, International Congress on Ultra-Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, International Conference on Stochastic Methods, and Mathematical Methods in Reliability.
Nika Ivanova is Scientific Researcher at V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences. She received her B.Sc. degree in Business Informatics, in 2017; M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from People's Friendship University of Russia, RUDN University, in 2019; and Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics, in 2023. In 2021, she received a scholarship from the Government of the Russian Federation and, in 2022, a scholarship from the President of the Russian Federation. With more than 15 papers to her credit, her current research interests include applied probability, queuing theory, reliability theory, modeling and simulation, sensitivity analysis, and machine learning.
Achyutha Krishnamoorthy is Emeritus Fellow of the University Grants Commission, the Government of India, at the Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT), Kerala, India, in 2017. Earlier, he was Honorary Director of the Centre for Research in Mathematics, at CMS College, Kottayam, in 2016. He was Emeritus Scientist of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment at the CUSAT, from 2013-2016. He had been Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics in CUSAT, from 1978-2009. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics (1969) from the University of Kerala, a master's degree in Mathematics from Jabalpur University (1971), and a doctoral degree in Mathematics from Annamalai University (1978).

Vladimir Vishnevsky 是俄羅斯科學院控制科學研究所（ICS RAS）電信網路實驗室的負責人，位於俄羅斯莫斯科。他曾擔任俄羅斯科學院信息傳輸問題研究所的副所長（1990年至2010年），以及ICS RAS的實驗室負責人（1971年至1990年）。他於1989年成為ICS RAS的正教授，並於1990年成為莫斯科物理技術學院的正教授。
他是IEEE通信學會的高級會員，也是IEEE俄羅斯分會通信學會分會（COM19）的主席，國際電信學院和紐約科學院的成員。他於1971年在俄羅斯莫斯科電子與數學學院獲得應用數學工程學學位，並分別於1974年和1988年在ICS RAS獲得排隊理論和電信網路的博士學位。他在排隊理論和電信網路方面發表了400多篇論文、12本書和20項發明專利，他的研究興趣涵蓋計算機系統和網路、排隊系統、電信、離散數學（極值圖論、數學規劃）和無線信息傳輸網路等領域。
Vishnevsky教授是國際分散式計算機和通信網路控制、計算、通信國際會議的總主席，也是多個國際會議的程序委員會成員，如國際超現代電信和控制系統大會以及無線和光通信的進展。他還是多個同行評審期刊的編輯委員會成員，如自動化和遠程控制、系統科學和應用、控制科學。他是幾個國際研究項目的項目負責人，這些項目與使用系留高空無人平台研究和開發下一代網路相關。2019年，他被俄羅斯總統授予俄羅斯聯邦榮譽科學家稱號。
Dharmaraja Selvamuthu 是印度德里印度理工學院數學系的教授和系主任，自2020年9月起擔任該職位。他於2003年加入該學院。他還是巴蒂電信技術和管理學院的聯合教職員，自2013年起。他於2010年至2015年擔任Jaswinder和Tarvinder Chadha講座教授，從事運籌學領域的教學和研究。他於1992年在印度總統學院獲得數學學士學位，1994年在安娜大學金迪工程學院獲得應用數學碩士學位，1999年在印度理工學院馬德拉斯分校獲得數學博士學位。從1999年到2002年，他在美國杜克大學電機與計算機工程系擔任博士後研究員。從2002年到2003年，他在加拿大溫尼伯的TRLabs擔任研究助理。
Vladimir Rykov 是俄羅斯古賓金俄羅斯國立石油和天然氣大學應用數學和計算機建模系的正教授。自1990年以來，他還是俄羅斯人民友誼大學概率論和網路安全系的正教授。他於1990年在莫斯科國立大學獲得物理和數學博士學位。他的主要研究興趣包括可控排隊系統和可靠性理論。
Rykov教授自1968年起與莫斯科數學學會（概率論部門）、俄羅斯精算學會（1995年起）、Kappa Mu Epsilon國家數學榮譽學會和密歇根Epsilon分會（2001年起）有關聯。2001年至2003年，他擔任美國凱特林大學數學和科學學院數學統計學系的客座教授。