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With our growing reliability on distributed networks, the security aspect of such networks becomes of prime importance. In large scale distributed networks it becomes cardinal to have an efficient and effective monitoring scheme. The monitoring schemes supervise the node behaviour in the network and look out for any discrepancy. Monitoring schemes comprise of monitoring components that work tog...

We establish Klar’s (2002) conjecture about sharp reliability bounds for life distributions in the Lα-class in reliability theory. The key idea is to construct a set of two-point distributions whose support points satisfy a certain system of equalities and inequalities.

This paper presents the core principles of reliability in software engineering; outlining why reliability testing is critical and specifying the process of measuring reliability. The paper provides insight for both novice and experts in the software engineering field for assessing failure intensity as well as predicting failure of software systems. Measurements are conducted by utilizing inform...