Title :
Distributed Computer Systems Reliability Considering Imperfect Coverage and Common-Cause Failures
Author :
Xing, Liudong ; Shrestha, Akhilesh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., MA
Abstract :
We analyze the reliability of distributed computer systems (DCS) with imperfect fault coverage (IPC) and common-cause failures (CCF). Our analysis approach based on reduced ordered binary decision diagrams (ROBDD) is separable and computationally efficient. The DCS without IPC or CCF appear to be special cases of our approach. The application and advantages of the approach are illustrated through a concrete analysis of an example distributed computer system
Keywords :
binary decision diagrams; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; system recovery; common-cause failure; distributed computer system reliability; imperfect fault coverage; reduced ordered binary decision diagram; Application software; Boolean functions; Concrete; Data structures; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Failure analysis; Fault detection; Redundancy; Reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2281-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.2005.129
