The broadcast comparison model for on-line fault diagnosis in multicomputer systems: Theory and implementation

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 470-493

  Blough, Douglas M ^a,c   Brown, Hongying W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosability; Distributed algorithms; Fault diagnosis; Multicomputer systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS;

BROADCAST COMPARISON MODELS; COMMON SPACEBORNE MULTICOMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS (COSMOS); POLYNOMIAL-TIME DIAGNOSABILITY ALGORITHMS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032639660     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.769431     Document Type: Review

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