Foundations of Dependable Computing

System Implementation
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-1-4757-8357-5
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 285, 321 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

, explores the system infrastructure needed to support the various paradigms of . Approaches to implementing support mechanisms and to incorporating additional appropriate levels of fault detection and fault tolerance at the processor, network, and operating system level are presented. A primary concern at these levels is balancing cost and performance against coverage and overall dependability. As these chapters demonstrate, low overhead, practical solutions are attainable and not necessarily incompatible with performance considerations. The section on innovative compiler support, in particular, demonstrates how the benefits of application specificity may be obtained while reducing hardware cost and run-time overhead.
A companion to this volume (published by Kluwer) subtitled presents two comprehensive frameworks for reasoning about system dependability, thereby establishing a context for understanding the roles played by specific approaches presented in this book's two companion volumes. It then explores the range of models and analysis methods necessary to design, validate and analyze dependable systems.
Another companion to this book (published by Kluwer), subtitled , presents a variety of specific approaches to achieving dependability at the application level. Driven by the higher level fault models of , and built on the lower level abstractions implemented in a third companion book subtitled , these approaches demonstrate how dependability may be tuned to the requirements of an application, the fault environment, and the characteristics of the target platform. Three classes of paradigms are considered: protocol-based paradigms for distributed applications, algorithm-based paradigms for parallel applications, and approaches to exploiting application semantics in embedded real-time control systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Clifford G.

Koob, Gary M.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Rechnerarchitektur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dependable Components.- Self-Checking and Self-Exercising Design for Hierarchic Long-Life Fault-Tolerant Systems.- Design of Self-Checking Processors Using Efficient Berger Check Prediction Logic.- Dependable Communications.- Network Fault Detection and Recovery in the Chaos Router.- Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Communication in Distributed Computing Systems.- Computer Support.- Speculative Execution and Compiler-Assisted Multiple Instruction Recovery.- Compiler Assisted Synthesis of Algorithm-Based Checking in Multiprocessors1.- Operating System Support.- Application Transparent Fault Management in Fault Tolerant Mach.- Constructing Dependable Distributed Systems Using Consul.- Enhancing Fault Tolerance of Real-Time Systems through Time Redundancy.