Fail-silent system

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A fail-silent system is a type of system that either provides the correct service, or provides no service at all (becomes silent).{{citation |url=http://www.cs.newcastle.ac.uk/publications/articles/papers/146.pdf |title=Implementing fail-silent nodes for distributed systems |journal=IEEE Transactions on Computers |year=1996 |author1=F.V. Brasileiro |author2=P.D. Ezhilchelvan |author3=S.K. Shrivastava |author4=N.A. Speirs |author5=S. Tao |volume=45 |issue=11 |pages=1226–1238 |doi=10.1109/12.544479 |access-date=2015-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410093149/http://www.cs.newcastle.ac.uk/publications/articles/papers/146.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-10 |url-status=dead }}