A Simplified Method to Calculate Failure Times in Fault-Tolerant Systems

Authors

Sharad C. Seth, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Lester Lipsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1983

Comments

Published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, VOL. C-32, NO. 8, AUGUST 1983, pp. 754-756. doi: 10.1109/TC.1983.1676315 Copyright 1983 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

A simplified method is presented to calculate moments of failure time and residual lifetime of a fault-tolerant system. The method is based on recent results in queueing theory. Its effectiveness is illustrated by considering a dual repairable system from the literature.