Design Optimization of Time- and Cost-Constrained Fault-Tolerant Distributed Embedded Systems

Viacheslav Izosimov, Paul Pop, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng

AbstractIn this paper we present an approach to the design optimization of fault-tolerant embedded systems for safety-critical applications. Processes are statically scheduled and communications are performed using the time-triggered protocol. We use process re-execution and replication for tolerating transient faults. Our design optimization approach decides the mapping of processes to processors and the assignment of fault-tolerant policies to processes such that transient faults are tolerated and the timing constraints of the application are satisfied. We present several heuristics which are able to find fault-tolerant implementations given a limited amount of resources. The developed algorithms are evaluated using extensive experiments, including a real-life example.
TypeConference paper [With referee]
ConferenceDesign Automation and Test in Europe Conference
Year2005    Month March    pp. 864--869
Notebest paper award
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IMM Group(s)Computer Science & Engineering