Evaluating availability under quasi-heavy-tailed repair times

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 442-451

  Kato, Sei ^a   Osogami, Takayuki ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAINTENANCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REPAIR; SENSOR NETWORKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORIES; ENERGY RESEARCH; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; HEAVY-TAILED; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; IT SYSTEMS; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; MEAN TIME TO REPAIR; RETURN VALUE; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; TIME-SERIES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 53349128402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2008.4630115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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