Title :
Reliability analysis of a class of fault tolerant systems
Author :
Pham, Hoang ; Upadhyaya, Shambhu J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Abstract :
The authors examine a method for improving the reliability of a class of fault-tolerant systems in digital data communication. They derive a general expression for the reliability of such systems and obtain a simple bound for the system reliability. The issue of minimizing the expected total system cost is discussed. A numerical example is given to illustrate the technique
Keywords :
data communication systems; digital communication systems; fault tolerant computing; reliability; reliability theory; digital data communication; fault tolerant systems; reliability analysis; system reliability; Application software; Circuit faults; Control systems; Digital systems; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Power system reliability; Redundancy; Software systems; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1989. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
DOI :
10.1109/ARMS.1989.49585
