Availability modeling and analysis of a virtualized system

2009 15th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 365-371

  Kim, Dong Seong ^a   Machida, Fumio ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION FAILURE; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; FAULT-TREES; HARDWARE FAILURES; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; HIGH AVAILABILITY; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE FAILURE; STEADY-STATE AVAILABILITY; SUBMODELS; SYSTEM MODELS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 77649324276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2009.64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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