Title :
The Reliability of a Fault-Tolerant Configuration Having Variable Coverage
Author_Institution :
Raytheon Company
Abstract :
An expression is derived for the reliability of an r-on-m fault-tolerant configuration (r spares supporting m identical operating units) when both the hazard and the coverage probability are functions of time. In addition, the coverage probability is allowed to be a function of the number of spares that have to be tested before an operational unit is found.
Keywords :
Fault coverage; redundancy; reliability modeling; Circuit faults; Convolutional codes; Error correction codes; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Notice of Violation; Polynomials; Shift registers; Testing; Welding; Fault coverage; redundancy; reliability modeling;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TC.1978.1675026
