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Reliability and Performability Techniques and Tools: A Survey

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Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechen- und Kommunikationssystemen

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Reliability and performability modeling techniques and tools have been an area of lot of research activity in the last ten years. We present a survey of different techniques and tools that can be used for re-liability and performability analysis. A unified mathematical framework for reliability and performability models in terms of Markov reward models is presented. Among modeling techniques, we describe reward-based hybrid hierarchical modeling, combinatorial multistate models, queues with server breakdowns, completion time approach, and iterative modeling. Software packages METFAC, NUMAS, SHARPE, SPNP, and Ultra-SAN are considered in detail while DyQNtool, PENELOPE, PENPET, and SAVE are briefly discussed.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR-9108114 and by the Naval Surface Warfare Center under grant N60921-92-C-0161.

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Trivedi, K.S., Malhotra, M. (1993). Reliability and Performability Techniques and Tools: A Survey. In: Walke, B., Spaniol, O. (eds) Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechen- und Kommunikationssystemen. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78495-8_3

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