Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Common-Cause Failures

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 689-698

  Xing, Liudong ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; RELIABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FAULT TREES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542300143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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