In telecommunication, channel reliability (ChR) is the percentage of time a communication channel was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability.
Channel reliability is given by
ChR=100(1-
| To | |
| Ts |
)=100
| Ta | |
| Ts |
where T o is the channel total outage time, T s is the channel total scheduled time, and T a is the channel total available time.