Analysis of conditional MTTF of fault-tolerant systems

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-401

  Choi, Hoon ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^c  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Box 90291 ^*  (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATE SPACE METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MEAN TIME TO FAILURE (MTTF) ANALYSIS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032017419     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2714(97)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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