Threshold-based mechanisms to discriminate transient from intermittent faults

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 230-245

  Bondavalli, Andrea ^a,b   Chiaradonna, Silvano ^c   Di Giandomenico, Felicita ^c   Grandoni, Fabrizio ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNT-AND-THRESHOLD MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 0033750717     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.841127     Document Type: Article

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