System reliability analysis considering fatal and non-fatal shocks in a fault tolerant system

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 436-441

  Xing, Liudong ^a   Prashanthi, Dartmouth ^a   Sun, Yan ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagram; Poisson decomposition; Reliability; Shock

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL APPROACH; FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEMS; NON-FATAL; POISSON DECOMPOSITION; RELIABILITY EVALUATION; SHOCK; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SYSTEM DESIGN; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349104720     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2009.4914716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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