Reliability of Computer Systems & Networks – Fault Tolerance, Analysis & Design (Ebook)

MARTIN L. SHOOMAN, PhD, served for many years as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Shooman has been a Visiting Professor at MIT and Hunter College, and a consultant to Bell Laboratories, NASA, IBM, the US Army, and many other government and commercial organizations. A fellow of the IEEE, he has received five best paper awards from their Reliability and Computer Societies. Dr. Shooman has contributed to over 100 papers and reports to the research literature and has given special courses in Britain, Canada, France, Israel, and throughout the US. The author of Probabilistic Reliability: An Engineering Approach and Software Engineering: Design, Reliability, and Management, he is currently President of the consulting firm Martin L. Shooman & Associates.

Preface.Introduction.Coding Techniques.Redundancy, Spares, and Repairs.N Modular Redundancy.Software Reliability and Recovery Techniques.Networked Systems Reliability.Reliability Optimization.Appendix A: Summary of Probability Theory.Appendix B: Summary of Reliability Theory.Appendix C: Review of Architecture Fundamentals.Appendix D: Programs for Reliability Modeling and Analysis.Name Index.Subject Index.