Graduation Year
2003
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Granting Department
Industrial Engineering
Major Professor
O. Geoffrey Okogbaa, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Tapas Das, Ph.D.
Committee Member
A.N. Rao, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Sudeep Sarkar, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Michael Weng, Ph.D.
Keywords
performance evaluation, distributed systems, system redundancy, end-to-end solution modeling, event tree, application tool
Abstract
This dissertation research attempts to explore efficient algorithms and engineering methodologies of analyzing the overall reliability and availability of networks integrated with software failures and hardware failures. Node failures, link failures, and software failures are concurrently and dynamically considered in networks with complex topologies. MORIN (MOdeling Reliability for Integrated Networks) method is proposed and discussed as an approach for analyzing reliability of integrated networks. A Simplified Availability Modeling Tool (SAMOT) is developed and introduced to evaluate and analyze the availability of networks consisting of software and hardware component systems with architectural redundancy. In this dissertation, relevant research efforts in analyzing network reliability and availability are reviewed and discussed, experimental data results of proposed MORIN methodology and SAMOT application are provided, and recommendations for future researches in the network reliability study are summarized as well.
Scholar Commons Citation
Hou, Wei, "Integrated Reliability and Availability Aanalysis of Networks With Software Failures and Hardware Failures" (2003). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1393
