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Dynamic Standby Sparing
Standby sparing is a technique in which one or several components are online and operating with some redundant components serving as standby spares [1,2]. When an online component malfunctions, an available standby component is activated to replace the failed online component and take over the mission task so the entire system can continue to function correctly. The standby sparing technique has been applied in many industries to achieve fault‐tolerance and high system reliability or availability. Examples of applications include power systems [3–5], storage systems [6], high‐performance computing systems [7], distributed systems [8], and telecommunication systems [9,10]. The standby sparing technique is especially crucial for communication and computer systems used in mission‐ or life‐critical applications, e.g. flight control [ 1 ,11] and space missions [12,13] where maintaining or replacing a malfunctioned component through...