Efficient fault identification of diagnosable systems under the comparison model

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1612-1618

  Yang, Xiaofan ^a   Tang, Yuan Yan ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Comparison model; Diagnosable system; Diagnosis algorithm; Multicomputer; PMC model; System level diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT DETECTION; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS ALGORITHM; MULTICOMPUTER; SYSTEM-LEVEL DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 36348964932     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70769     Document Type: Article

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