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The series reliability systems considered in Chapter 6 are ‘fault-intolerant’ because failure of any component causes system failure. In this and the succeeding chapter we consider systems in which some components may fail without causing system failure; they are thus ‘fault-tolerant’ and to achieve this some measure of hardware redundancy must be introduced. (Fault-tolerance in software is considered in Chapter 13.)
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Beasley, M. (1991). Fault-tolerant Systems — I. In: Reliability for Engineers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21369-6_8
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