[PDF] Computer System Reliability eBook

Author : B.S. Dhillon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1466573139

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Computer systems have become an important element of the world economy, with billions of dollars spent each year on development, manufacture, operation, and maintenance. Combining coverage of computer system reliability, safety, usability, and other related topics into a single volume, Computer System Reliability: Safety and Usability eliminates th

Author : Martin L. Shooman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471464066

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With computers becoming embedded as controllers in everything from network servers to the routing of subway schedules to NASA missions, there is a critical need to ensure that systems continue to function even when a component fails. In this book, bestselling author Martin Shooman draws on his expertise in reliability engineering and software engineering to provide a complete and authoritative look at fault tolerant computing. He clearly explains all fundamentals, including how to use redundant elements in system design to ensure the reliability of computer systems and networks. Market: Systems and Networking Engineers, Computer Programmers, IT Professionals.

Author : Robin A. Sahner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1461523672

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Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package provides a variety of probabilistic, discrete-state models used to assess the reliability and performance of computer and communication systems. The models included are combinatorial reliability models (reliability block diagrams, fault trees and reliability graphs), directed, acyclic task precedence graphs, Markov and semi-Markov models (including Markov reward models), product-form queueing networks and generalized stochastic Petri nets. A practical approach to system modeling is followed; all of the examples described are solved and analyzed using the SHARPE tool. In structuring the book, the authors have been careful to provide the reader with a methodological approach to analytical modeling techniques. These techniques are not seen as alternatives but rather as an integral part of a single process of assessment which, by hierarchically combining results from different kinds of models, makes it possible to use state-space methods for those parts of a system that require them and non-state-space methods for the more well-behaved parts of the system. The SHARPE (Symbolic Hierarchical Automated Reliability and Performance Evaluator) package is the `toolchest' that allows the authors to specify stochastic models easily and solve them quickly, adopting model hierarchies and very efficient solution techniques. All the models described in the book are specified and solved using the SHARPE language; its syntax is described and the source code of almost all the examples discussed is provided. Audience: Suitable for use in advanced level courses covering reliability and performance of computer and communications systems and by researchers and practicing engineers whose work involves modeling of system performance and reliability.

Author : Min Xie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0306486369

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Computing systems are of growing importance because of their wide use in many areas including those in safety-critical systems. This book describes the basic models and approaches to the reliability analysis of such systems. An extensive review is provided and models are categorized into different types. Some Markov models are extended to the analysis of some specific computing systems such as combined software and hardware, imperfect debugging processes, failure correlation, multi-state systems, heterogeneous subsystems, etc. One of the aims of the presentation is that based on the sound analysis and simplicity of the approaches, the use of Markov models can be better implemented in the computing system reliability.

Author : Hoang Pham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2007-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1846282950

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Computer software reliability has never been so important. Computers are used in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-systems, automotive, mechanical and safety control, and hospital patient monitoring systems. Many of these applications require critical functionality as software applications increase in size and complexity. This book is an introduction to software reliability engineering and a survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. Current research results are reported and future directions are signposted. This text will interest: graduate students as a course textbook introducing reliability engineering software; reliability engineers as a broad, up-to-date survey of the field; and researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volume reference.

Author : Balbir S. Dhillon
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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This volume covers wide areas of interest such as life cycle costing, microcomputers, common-cause failures and space computers. Every effort is made to present difficult material with the aid of an example along with its solution. The material covered is summarized at the end of each chapter. The information is written in a format that allows readers to learn and better understand the philosophy of reliability in computer system design. At the same time, it tests their comprehension through listed exercises.

Author : Charles Antony Richard Hoare
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1586037315

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To make communication and computation secure against catastrophic failure and malicious interference, it is essential to build secure software systems and methods for their development. This book describes the ideas on how to meet these challenges in software engineering.

Author : Daniel Siewiorek
Publisher : Digital Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1483297438

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Enhance your hardware/software reliability Enhancement of system reliability has been a major concern of computer users and designers ¦ and this major revision of the 1982 classic meets users' continuing need for practical information on this pressing topic. Included are case studies of reliable systems from manufacturers such as Tandem, Stratus, IBM, and Digital, as well as coverage of special systems such as the Galileo Orbiter fault protection system and AT&T telephone switching processors.

Author : Eric Bauer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1118075080

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System reliability, availability and robustness are often not well understood by system architects, engineers and developers. They often don't understand what drives customer's availability expectations, how to frame verifiable availability/robustness requirements, how to manage and budget availability/robustness, how to methodically architect and design systems that meet robustness requirements, and so on. The book takes a very pragmatic approach of framing reliability and robustness as a functional aspect of a system so that architects, designers, developers and testers can address it as a concrete, functional attribute of a system, rather than an abstract, non-functional notion.