A Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable Systems

David Powell

ISBN 10: 0792372956 / ISBN 13: 9780792372950

Edité par Springer Us Jan 2001, 2001

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Neuware - 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solutions that, by the time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying hardware and software technology.

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• Titre: A Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable Systems
• Éditeur: Springer Us Jan 2001
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0792372956
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780792372950
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 544 grammes

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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.