Component ranking for fault-tolerant cloud applications

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 540-550

  Zheng, Zibin ^a,b   Zhou, Tom Chao ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a,c   King, Irwin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud application; component ranking; fault tolerance; software reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT RANKING; CRITICAL RESEARCHES; FAULT-TOLERANT; RANKING ALGORITHM; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STRUCTURES;

FAULT TOLERANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84870862809     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2011.42     Document Type: Article

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