Analysis of preventive maintenance in transactions based software systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-107

  Garg, Sachin ^a,e   Puliafito, Antonio ^b   Telek, Miklós ^c   Trivedi, Kishor ^d,e  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov regenerative models; Preventive maintenance; Reliability modeling; Software fault tolerance; Software rejuvenation; Transactions based software systems

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MARKOV REGENERATIVE MODELS; PREVENTIVE SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE; SOFTWARE REJUVENATION; TRANSACTIONS BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031702473     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.656092     Document Type: Article

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