Dependability Models of RAID Using Stochastic Activity Networks

The development of CTMCs to model RAIDs with a general failure-repair process seems a complex task. The introduction of a technique with higher modeling level, that facilitates the description of the failure-repair processes is essential to deepen in the dependability analysis of these systems.

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