Availability assessment of HA standby redundant clusters

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 265-274

  Distefano, Salvatore ^a   Longo, Francesco ^a   Scarpa, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic reliability; High availability clusters; Standby redundancy

Indexed keywords

AGING PROCESS; AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTING SYSTEM; CRITICAL TASKS; DYNAMIC RELIABILITY; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; HIGH AVAILABILITY; HIGH-AVAILABILITY CLUSTERS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; KRONECKER ALGEBRA; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; MARKOV CHAIN; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; REDUNDANT SYSTEM; STANDBY REDUNDANCY; STATE-SPACE EXPLOSION; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; WEAR AND TEAR;

ALGEBRA; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 78650560407     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDS.2010.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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