Reliability Modeling of hardware and software interactions, and its applications

被引:34
作者
Teng, Xiaolin [1 ]
Pham, Hoang
Jeske, Daniel R.
机构
[1] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Ind & Syst Engn, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[2] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Stat, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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D O I
10.1109/TR.2006.884589
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
We classify system failures into three categories: hardware failures, software failures, and hardware-software interaction failures. We develop a unified reliability model that accounts for failures in all three categories. Hardware, and software failures are accounted for with well-known modeling approaches. In this paper, we propose a modeling methodology using Markov processes to capture hardware-software interaction failures. We illustrate the combined hardware & software modeling approach by applying it to a real telecommunication system.
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页码:571 / 577
页数:7
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