Dynamic Fault-Tree Models for Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 363-377

  Dugan, Joanne Bechta ^a   Bavuso, Salvatore J ^b   Boyd, Mark A ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic redundancy; Fault tree; Fault tolerant computer system; HARP; Spare

Indexed keywords

AVIONICS; LOGIC GATES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY;

DYNAMIC FAULT-TREE MODELS; ERROR RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; FAULT-TOLERANT HYPERCUBE; HYBRID AUTOMATED RELIABILITY PREDICTOR; SOFTWARE PACKAGE HARP;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026925395     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.159800     Document Type: Article

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