ASTRO: A tool for dependability evaluation of data center infrastructures

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 783-790

  Silva, B ^a   Maciel, P ^a   Tavares, E ^a   Araujo, C ^a   Callou, G ^a   Sousa, E ^a   Rosa, N ^a   Marwah, M ^b   Sharma, R ^b   Shah, A ^b   Christian, T ^b   Pires, J P ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center evaluation; Dependability evaluation tools; Reliability block diagrams; Stochastic Petri Nets

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA CENTERS; DEPENDABILITY EVALUATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; HIGH AVAILABILITY; HIGH-LEVEL MODELS; HYBRID MODELING; PIECE-WISE; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; STOCHASTIC PETRI NET; STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS;

CYBERNETICS; GRAPH THEORY; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78751493128     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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