A Comprehensive Availability Modeling and Analysis of a Virtualized Servers System Using Stochastic Reward Nets

Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^a   Kim, Dong Seong ^b   Park, Jong Sou ^a  

^a Hankuk Aviation University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HARDWARE FAILURE; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MONITOR; NONAGING RELATED MANDELBUGS FAILURE; PHYSICAL HOST FAILURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOCHASTIC REWARD NET; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITOR; VIRTUAL REALITY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; REWARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REWARD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84934888038     PISSN: 23566140     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/165316     Document Type: Article

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