On computer communication network reliability under program execution constraints
A. Kumar, S. Rai, Dharma Prakash Agrawal · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1988
The authors propose a technique to compute software system reliability (SSR). The method, called FARE (fast algorithm for reliability evaluation), does not require a priori knowledge of multiterminal connections (MCs) for computing the reliability expression. An effort is made to sole the problem of N-version programming by using the FARE approach. Owing to its short execution time and low memory requirement, FARE can be used to calculate the SSR of fairly large distributed systems.>