Issue |
RAIRO-Oper. Res.
Volume 34, Number 4, October December 2000
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Page(s) | 385 - 396 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ro:2000120 | |
Published online | 15 August 2002 |
Simulation of transient performance measures for stiff markov chains
Département de Mathématiques, Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia,
boulevard du Prince Moulay Abdellah, BP. 2390, Marrakech, Morocco
Received:
May
1997
We consider the simulation of transient performance measures of high reliable fault-tolerant computer systems. The most widely used mathematical tools to model the behavior of these systems are Markov processes. Here, we deal basically with the simulation of the mean time to failure (MTTF) and the reliability, R(t), of the system at time t. Some variance reduction techniques are used to reduce the simulation time. We will combine two of these techniques: Importance Sampling and Conditioning Technique. The resulting hybrid algorithm performs significant reduction of simulation time and gives stables estimations.
Key words: Reliability / stiff Markovian models / performance measures / variance reduction / Monte-Carlo simulation.
© EDP Sciences, 2000
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