Title :
Performance/Reliability Measures for Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Faculty of Engineering; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima 724 JAPAN.
Abstract :
Some fault-tolerant computing systems are discussed and existing reliability measures are explained. Some performance/reliability measures are introduced. Several systems are compared by using numerical examples with the new measures.
Keywords :
Degradation; Fault detection; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Military computing; Redundancy; Reliability; Software measurement; Time measurement; Voting; Computational demand; Fault-tolerance; Graceful degradation; Hardware redundancy; Performance measure;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1984.5221818
