Dependability Evaluation with Fault Injection Experiments

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2642-2649

  Gawkowski, Piotr ^a   Sosnowski, Janusz ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dependability evaluation; Fault injection; Fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR DETECTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

DEPENDABILITY EVALUATION; FAULT INJECTION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0842310453     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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