Fail-silent system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A fail-silent system is a type of system that either provides the correct service, or provides no service at all (becomes silent).[1] Design by contract Fail-fast system Fail-safe Fail-stop Fault tolerance References ↑ F.V. Brasileiro; P.D. Ezhilchelvan; S.K. Shrivastava; N.A. Speirs; S. Tao (1996), "Implementing fail-silent nodes for distributed systems" (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers, 45 (11): 1226–1238, doi:10.1109/12.544479, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-10, retrieved 2015-04-04 This technology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte Related Articles