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Evaluating failure rate of fault-tolerant multistage interconnection networks using Weibull life distribution

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  • Bistouni, Fathollah
  • Jahanshahi, Mohsen

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Fault-tolerant multistage interconnection networks (MINs) play a vital role in the performance of multiprocessor systems where reliability evaluation becomes one of the main concerns in analyzing these networks properly. In many cases, the primary objective in system reliability analysis is to compute a failure distribution of the entire system according to that of its components. However, since the problem is known to be NP-hard, in none of the previous efforts, the precise evaluation of the system failure rate has been performed. Therefore, our goal is to investigate this parameter for different fault-tolerant MINs using Weibull life distribution that is one of the most commonly used distributions in reliability. In this paper, four important groups of fault-tolerant MINs will be examined to find the best fault-tolerance techniques in terms of failure rate; (1) Extra-stage MINs, (2) Parallel MINs, (3) Rearrangeable non-blocking MINs, and (4) Replicated MINs. This paper comprehensively analyzes all perspectives of the reliability (terminal, broadcast, and network reliability). Moreover, in this study, all reliability equations are calculated for different network sizes.

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  • Bistouni, Fathollah & Jahanshahi, Mohsen, 2015. "Evaluating failure rate of fault-tolerant multistage interconnection networks using Weibull life distribution," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 128-146.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:144:y:2015:i:c:p:128-146
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2015.07.023
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