Title :
File server system reliability versus level of inactive and active parallel standby redundancy
Author :
Liechenstein, Michael I.
Author_Institution :
St. Johns Univ., Jamaica, NY, USA
Abstract :
File server based computer systems in commercial and governmental usage require high mission reliability. This can be achieved by incorporating a more reliable, costly single server, or by constructing systems with redundant, inferior servers. As an aid to cost-effective designs, absolute and relative mission reliability are determined as a function of redundancy for linked, parallel servers in both inactive and active standby modes of operation with constant hazard rates
Keywords :
computer network reliability; file servers; parallel processing; performance evaluation; probability; redundancy; statistical analysis; active standby mode; computer systems; file server system; hazard rates; inactive standby modes; linked parallel servers; mission reliability; redundancy; Computer network reliability; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Equations; File servers; Hazards; Network servers; Power supplies; Power system reliability; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994. Humans, Information and Technology., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2129-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1994.400242
