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A New Availability Concept for (n,k)-way Cluster Systems Regarding Waiting Time

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It is necessary to have the precise definition of available performance of high availability systems that can represent the availability and performability of the systems altogether. However, the difference between numeric scales of availability and performance metrics such as waiting time makes quantitative evaluation difficult. A number of previous studies on availability do not include a performance metric in their availability modeling. In this paper, we propose a new availability model for (n,k)-way cluster systems which compose of n primary servers and k backup servers and compute the redundancy levels for the systems to satisfy both the requirements of availability and waiting time performance.

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  1. Department of Software, Anyang University, Incheon, 417-833, Korea

    Kiejin Park

  2. Graduate School of Information and Communication, Ajou University, Suwon, 442-749, Korea

    Sungsoo Kim

  3. Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3112, USA

    Jyh-Charn Liu

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minessota, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  6. The Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Computer Science, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Park, K., Kim, S., Liu, JC. (2003). A New Availability Concept for (n,k)-way Cluster Systems Regarding Waiting Time. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2667. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44839-X_105

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