Survey of combined hardware–software reliability prediction approaches from architectural and system failure viewpoint

Sourav Sinha (), Neeraj Kumar Goyal and Rajib Mall
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Sourav Sinha: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Neeraj Kumar Goyal: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Rajib Mall: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2019, vol. 10, issue 4, No 1, 453-474

Abstract: Abstract Apart from hardware and software-specific failures, failures arising from hardware–software interaction causes notorious system failures. Researches have reported two types of interaction failures in a system: hardware-driven software failure and software-driven hardware failure. An efficient reliability prediction approaches must consider all types of interactions. We critically analyse the existing reliability prediction models for the combined hardware–software system. We also propose a comparison framework to evaluate the existing reliability models for combined hardware–software systems. The results of our study suggest that none of the considered approaches completely satisfy the characteristics of a good reliability prediction model. Existing approaches hardly consider all types of hardware–software interactions. They also fail to consider reliability aspects of distributed systems where a system interacts with external devices. Our proposed comparison framework can be used as a benchmark to construct an efficient reliability prediction model for combined hardware–software systems.

Keywords: Reliability prediction; Combined hardware–software system; Interaction failure; Architecture based reliability analysis; NIMSAD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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