ResearchIndex Home P.A. Lee and T. Anderson. Dependable computing and fault-tolerant systems , v ol. Springer Verlag, New York, 1990. The failure of a node component leads to the unavailability of the whole node.
Nodes are failure independent.
We assume that nodes are connected by a reliable interconnection network. P.A. Lee and T. Anderson. Dependable computing and fault-tolerant systems , v ol. Springer Verlag, New York, 1990. Other hardware fault scenarios, such as bus failures, are not covered here, although are clearly important for a complete system.