NDLI: Action models: a reliability modeling formalism for fault-tolerant distributed computing systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	van Moorsel, A.P.A.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Distributed Software Res. Dept., AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA (van Moorsel, A.P.A.)
Abstract	Modern-day computing system design and development is characterized by increasing system complexity and ever shortening time to market. For modeling techniques to be deployed successfully, they must conveniently deal with complex system models, and must be quick and easy to use by non-specialists. In this paper we introduce "action models", a modeling formalism that tries to achieve the above goals for reliability evaluation of fault-tolerant distributed computing systems, including both software and hardware in the analysis. The metric of interest in action models is the job success probability, and we will argue why the traditional availability metric is insufficient for the evaluation of fault-tolerant distributed systems. We formally specify action models, and introduce path-based solution algorithms to deal with the potential solution complexity of created models. In addition, we show several examples of action models, and use a preliminary tool implementation to obtain reliability results for a reliable clustered computing platform.
Starting Page	119
Ending Page	128
File Size	1888084
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818686790
ISSN	10872191
DOI	10.1109/IPDS.1998.707715
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-09-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fault tolerant systems Distributed computing Time to market Fault trees Stochastic systems Petri nets Telecommunication switching Hardware Availability Clustering algorithms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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