Dependability analysis of complex fault tolerant systems

Abstract

Fault tolerant computing is an enabling technology for many newlinecurrent and future application areas and is becoming increasingly pervasive newlineThe next generation fault tolerant systems must be designed to be dynamic newlinepredictable and flexible in order to be able to deal with nondeterministic newlinefaultprone environment The hybrid redundancy distributed and cluster newlinesystems are natural candidates for satisfying such requirements due to their newlinepotential for high performance and reliability This demands efficient newlinemodeling techniques addressing fault tolerance issues in such computing newlinesystems newline newline