Research Article

Designing Fault Tolerance Strategy by Iterative Redundancy for Component-Based Distributed Computing Systems

Table 3

System failure probability of different cost factors with component failure probability is 0.3.

Redundant components Method Cost factors
CF = 3 CF = 5 CF = 7 CF = 9 CF = 11 CF = 13 CF = 15 CF = 17

Top 1% CFIR 0.8237 0.7623 0.6977 0.6407 0.6107 0.5940 0.5857 0.5813
MajorR 0.8813 0.8070 0.7550 0.7163 0.6877 0.6650 0.6477 0.6337

Top 5% CFIR 0.7303 0.6207 0.5367 0.4510 0.4043 0.3787 0.3670 0.3667
MajorR 0.8190 0.7043 0.6247 0.5663 0.5223 0.4870 0.4613 0.4610

Top 10% CFIR 0.6953 0.5803 0.4763 0.3787 0.3260 0.2983 0.2840 0.2763
MajorR 0.7953 0.6663 0.5757 0.5093 0.4593 0.4210 0.3910 0.3670

Top 20% CFIR 0.6583 0.5373 0.4130 0.3037 0.2447 0.2133 0.1970 0.1883
MajorR 0.7703 0.6257 0.5243 0.4503 0.3940 0.3507 0.3170 0.2900