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Stochastic Modelling of a Computer System with Hardware Redundancy

by S. C. Malik, V. J. Munday
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 89 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: S. C. Malik, V. J. Munday
10.5120/15516-4354

S. C. Malik, V. J. Munday . Stochastic Modelling of a Computer System with Hardware Redundancy. International Journal of Computer Applications. 89, 7 ( March 2014), 26-30. DOI=10.5120/15516-4354

@article{ 10.5120/15516-4354,
author = { S. C. Malik, V. J. Munday },
title = { Stochastic Modelling of a Computer System with Hardware Redundancy },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { March 2014 },
volume = { 89 },
number = { 7 },
month = { March },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 26-30 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume89/number7/15516-4354/ },
doi = { 10.5120/15516-4354 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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Abstract

In this paper, an effort for the stochastic analysis of a computer system has been made considering the idea of hardware redundancy in cold standby. The hardware and software failures occur independently in the computer system with some probability. A single server is employed immediately to conduct hardware repair and software up-gradation on need basis. The repair and up-gradation activities performed by the server are perfect. The time to hardware and software failures follows negative exponential distribution, whereas the distributions of hardware repair and software up-gradation times are taken as arbitrary with different probability density functions. The expressions for various reliability measures are derived in steady state using semi-Markov process and regenerative point technique. The graphs are drawn for arbitrary values of the parameters to depict the behaviour of some important performance measures of the system model.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Computer System Hardware Redundancy Stochastic Model and Reliability Measures