A Generic fault-tolerant architecture for real-time dependable systems
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A Generic fault-tolerant architecture for real-time dependable systems
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001
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The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time applications is a complex task. Such systems must not only guarantee to meet hard real-time deadlines imposed by their physical environment, they must guarantee to do so dependably, despite both physical faults (in hardware) and design faults (in hardware or software). A fault-tolerance approach is mandatory for these guarantees to be commensurate with the safety and reliability requirements of many life- and mission-critical applications. This book explains the motivations and the results of a collaborative project', whose objective was to significantly decrease the lifecycle costs of such fault tolerant systems. The end-user companies participating in this project already deploy fault-tolerant systems in critical railway, space and nuclear-propulsion applications. However, these are proprietary systems whose architectures have been tailored to meet domain-specific requirements. This has led to very costly, inflexible, and often hardware-intensive solutions that, by the time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying hardware and software technology.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. 1. Introduction and Overview
- D. Powell, et al. 2. Inter-Channel Communication Network
- C. Rabejac, D. Powell. 3. Scheduling
- L. Beus-Dukic, A. Wellings. 4. Error Processing and Fault Treatment
- A. Bondavalli, et al. 5. Output Consolidation
- S. Lautier, E. Jenn. 6. Multilevel Integrity Mechanisms
- E. Totel, et al. 7. Architecture Development Environment
- L. Beus-Dukic, et al. 8. Formal Verification
- C. Bernadeschi, et al. 9. Dependability Evaluation
- J. Arlat, et al. 10. Demonstrators
- C. Dambra, et al. Project Consortium. Abbreviations. References.
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