The Reliability of a Fault-Tolerant Configuration Having Variable Coverage

  • Authors:
  • J. J. Stiffler

  • Affiliations:
  • Raytheon Company

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1978

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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.