A hierarchical approach for dependability analysis of a commercial cache-based RAID storage architecture

Digest of Papers - 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, FTCS 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 6-15

  Kaaniche M ^b   Romano, L ^a   Kalbarczyk, Z ^a   Iyer, R ^a   Karcich, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c Sun StorageTek   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CACHE MEMORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RECOVERY;

DEPENDABILITY ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY; ERROR-DETECTION MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORS; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; HIERARCHICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 27544457277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FTCS.1998.689450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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