Error and failure analysis of a UNIX server

Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International High-Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, HASE 1998

Volumn 1998-November, Issue , 1998, Pages 232-239

  Lal, R ^a   Choi, G ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); SAFETY ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; UNIX;

COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ERROR PATTERNS; FAILURE EVENTS; FAULT INJECTION; MEASUREMENT-BASED; SYSTEM ERRORS; SYSTEM FAILURES; UNIX SERVERS;

ERRORS;

EID: 33646927438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.1998.731618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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