Fault Injection A Method for Validating Computer-System Dependability

Computer

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 47-56

  Clark, Jeffrey A ^a   Pradhan, Dhiraj K ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; ERROR CORRECTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM DEPENDABILITY; FAULT INJECTION; RELIABLE ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERIZATION TOOL;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029327426     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.386985     Document Type: Article

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