A Technique for Estimating Performance of Fault-Tolerant Programs
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Vol. SE-11 (6), 555-563
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1985.232493
Abstract
A technique is presented for estimating the performance of programs written for execution on fail-stop processors. It is based on modeling the program as a discrete-time Markov chain and then using z-transforms to derive a probability distribution for time to completion.Keywords
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