A dependability analysis for systems with global spares

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 958-963

  Yin, Meng Lai ^a,b   Blough, Douglas M ^a,c   Bic, Lubomir ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependability modeling; Global spares; Graceful degradation; Nonexponential failures; Renewal processes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DEPENDABILITY MODELING; GLOBAL SPARES; NONDEGRADABLE SYSTEMS; NONEXPONENTIAL FAILURE; RENEWAL PROCESSES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034272548     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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