COE 523 or Consent of the Instructor
Reliability and fault-tolerance of computer networks such as FDDI, double loop,hypercube, multi-stage interconnection network, multiprocessor systems, etc.Reliable and fault-tolerant routing, Reliability evaluation algorithms, Availabil-ity and survivability of computer systems, Reliability models of JPL-STAR, FTMP,ESS No. 1, PLURIBUS, etc. Software fault tolerance and reliability. Projects usingnetwork reliability evaluation tools such as SYREL, SHARPE and SPNP.