Reliability and safety analysis of fault tolerant and fail safe node for use in a railway signalling system

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-183

  Chandra, Vinod ^a   Kumar, K Vijaya ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAILROAD SIGNAL SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY; TRANSPUTERS;

FAULT TOLERANT NODES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031199607     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00020-3     Document Type: Article

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