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Quantification of system survivability

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Survivability is a concept that describes the capability of a system to achieve timely recovery after the occurrence of undesired events. It is more general and detailed than many terms, such as RTO and RPO, that have a similar goal. Survivability is capable of capturing complex system recovery behaviors and tracking a large variety of system performance measures, and it also permits relatively simple quantification procedure as described in this paper.

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    Kishor S. Trivedi

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    Ruofan Xia

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Trivedi, K.S., Xia, R. Quantification of system survivability. Telecommun Syst 60, 451–470 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-015-9988-6

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