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October 1986, Volume SAC-4, Number 7
QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNITY
Guest Editor -- H. A. Malec

Quality Management -- Guest Editor's Prologue
H. A. Malec


PAPERS
Guest Editorial -- Quality and Reliability Management
H. A. Malec

Quality Assurance for Telecommunications Software
R. H. Dunn

The Productivity and Quality Connection
H. J. Harrington

Engineering Reliability Management
B. S. Dhillon

Introducing Software Quality Engineering into a Telecommunications Development Environment
M. Silva

Quality -- A Commitment by NYNEX
G. T. Ray

The Quality Information Network
R. Heldman

Guest Editorial -- Quality and Reliability Field Results for Communications Systems
J. Dutt

Reliability of Commercial Communications Satellite Systems
I. A. Feigenbaum

Measures of Test Effectiveness in a Communications Satellite Program
R. Neogy and H. Dharan

Analysis of Total Outage Data for Stored Program Control Switching Systems
S. R. Ali

Maintaining Permanent and Temporary Faults in a Communications System
B. E. Ossfeldt

The Activity-Dependent Failure Intensity of SPC Systems -- Some Empirical Results
E. Bredrup, K. Evensen, B. E. Helvik, and A. R. Swensen

Guest Editorial -- Reliability and Quality of Evolving Telecommunications
H. A. Malec

Logistics Quality Management -- The Key to Customer Satisfaction
D. R. Jones

Basic Concept of Quality Standards for the INS
Y. Kitahara

Information Systems: A Challenge for Computers and Communications Reliability
F. A. Schreiber

Quality-of-Service in Evolving Telecommunications Networks
J. G. Gruber, E. Abdou, P. Richards, and G. Williams

Avionics Maintenance 2010
D. Dowling and T. L. Rupinski

Guest Editorial -- Reliability and Quality Case Studies
J. D. Spragins

The D5 Digital Terminal System: A Case Study of a Comprehensive Quality and Reliability Program
W. Krmer, A. B. Sripad, and H. I. Saraidaridis

Reliability of the OS-280M Optical Submarine Repeater
K. Tatekura, H. Yamamoto, H. Wakabayashi, and Y. Niiro

A Procedure for Designing a Low Connected Survivable Fiber Network
E. Roohy-Laleh, E. Abdou, J. Hopkins, and M. A. Wagner

Safety Verification for Train Traffic Control Communications
G. Tarnai

Impact of Photodetector Defects on Optical System Performance
F. Cucchietti, A. Gallesio, M. Liberatore, and A. Piccirillo

Guest Editorial -- Quality and Reliability Theory for Communications
W. Kuo

Approximate Markov Modeling of High-Reliability Telecommunications Systems
J. F. Kitchin

Fault Coverage of Intelligent Switching Networks
I. Bazovsky, Sr. and I. Bazovsky, Jr.

On Lagrange Multipliers in work with Quality and Reliability Assurance
R. V. V. Vidal and P. W. Becker

Achieving Network Availability in a Multilayered Protocol Environment
M. R. Court

Guest Editorial -- Reliability/Quality/Performance of Networks
R. G. Heikes

A Timeout-Based Congestion Control Scheme for Window Flow-Controlled Networks
R. Jain

Current Telecommunication Network Reliability Models: A Critical Assessment
J. D. Spragins, J. C. Sinclair, Y. J. Kang, and H. Jafari

Response Time Performance of Videotex Systems
J. W. Wong and M. H. Ammar

A Highly Reliable LAN Protocol
A. C. Weaver


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