Title
Failure Type-Aware Reliability Assessment with Component Failure Dependency
Abstract
Most of the existing reliability assessment techniques assume that components fail independently and consider different types of failures equally. By disregarding component failure dependency, these techniques assume inappropriately that a component failure does not affect any other component and it directly leads to a system failure. Also, by considering different failure types equally, reliability assessment disregards various criticality levels or severities of different failures. In practice, component failures affect other system components and vary with respect to their criticality levels. Recently, some propagation-based techniques incorporate component failure dependency in the reliability measure through failure propagation analysis by focusing only on value failures. Therefore, other failures (e.g., silent and performance) are not considered in the current failure propagation analysis. In this paper, we present an approach for reliability assessment of fault tolerant component-based software systems considering component failure dependency and enabling failure type-awareness. We incorporate component failure dependency in the reliability quantification by analyzing failure propagation among system components. We enable failure type-awareness by analyzing the propagation of different failure types in fault tolerant components and the architectural service routes among them. Finally, we aggregate the impacts of these failure types on system reliability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/SSIRI.2010.12
SSIRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
enabling failure type-awareness,different failure type,failure propagation analysis,failure type-aware reliability assessment,component failure dependency,disregarding component failure dependency,current failure propagation analysis,failure type,failure propagation,component failure,different failure,fault tolerant,application software,speech recognition,software architecture,software systems,object oriented programming,failure analysis,reliability,fault tolerance,software reliability
Failure mode and effects analysis,Computer science,Mission critical systems,Real-time computing,Software system,Fault tolerance,Criticality,Software architecture,Software quality,Application software,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Atef Mohamed1606.50
Mohammad Zulkernine294588.88