Fault-tolerance and reliability analysis for wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Performability Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-431

  Xing, Liudong ^a   Li, Haoli ^b   Michel, Howard E ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b Purvis System Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold spare; Dynamic fault tree; Fault tolerance; Hot spare; Reliability; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949269843     PISSN: 09731318     EISSN: 29938341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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