This book presents fundamentals of reliability engineering with its applications in evaluating reliability of multistage interconnection networks. In the first part of the book, it introduces the concept of reliability engineering, elements of probability theory, probability distributions, availability and data analysis.  The second part of the book provides an overview of parallel/distributed computing, network design considerations, and more.  The book covers a comprehensive reliability engineering methods and its practical aspects in the interconnection network systems. Students, engineers, researchers, managers will find this book as a valuable reference source.

Indra Gunawan, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering in the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering at the Federation University, Australia. He completed his PhD degree in industrial engineering from Northeastern University, USA. Prior to joining Monash University, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His main areas of research are maintenance and reliability engineering, project management, application of operations research, operations management, applied statistics, probability modeling, and engineering systems design. His work has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.