Author: Robert S. Hanmer Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118351541 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Software patterns have revolutionized the way developer’s and architects think about how software is designed, built and documented. This new title in Wiley’s prestigious Series in Software Design Patterns presents proven techniques to achieve patterns for fault tolerant software. This is a key reference for experts seeking to select a technique appropriate for a given system. Readers are guided from concepts and terminology, through common principles and methods, to advanced techniques and practices in the development of software systems. References will provide access points to the key literature, including descriptions of exemplar applications of each technique. Organized into a collection of software techniques, specific techniques can be easily found with sufficient detail to allow appropriate choices for the system being designed.
Author: Israel Koren Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080492681 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 399
Book Description
Fault-Tolerant Systems is the first book on fault tolerance design with a systems approach to both hardware and software. No other text on the market takes this approach, nor offers the comprehensive and up-to-date treatment that Koren and Krishna provide. This book incorporates case studies that highlight six different computer systems with fault-tolerance techniques implemented in their design. A complete ancillary package is available to lecturers, including online solutions manual for instructors and PowerPoint slides. Students, designers, and architects of high performance processors will value this comprehensive overview of the field. The first book on fault tolerance design with a systems approach Comprehensive coverage of both hardware and software fault tolerance, as well as information and time redundancy Incorporated case studies highlight six different computer systems with fault-tolerance techniques implemented in their design Available to lecturers is a complete ancillary package including online solutions manual for instructors and PowerPoint slides
Author: P. Pelliccione Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9812778861 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
In architecting dependable systems, what is required to improve the overall system robustness is fault tolerance. Many methods have been proposed to this end, the solutions are usually considered late during the design and implementation phases of the software life-cycle (e.g., Java and Windows NT exception handling), thus reducing the effectiveness error and fault handling. Since the system design typically models only normal behaviour of the system while ignoring exceptional ones, the implementation of the system is unable to handle abnormal events. Consequently, the system may fail in unexpected ways due to faults.It has been argued that fault tolerance management during the entire life-cycle improves the overall system robustness and that different classes of threats need to be identified for and dealt with at each distinct phase of software development, depending on the abstraction level of the software system being modelled.This book builds on this trend and investigates how fault tolerance mechanisms can be applied when engineering a software system. In particular, it identifies the new problems arising in this area, introduces the new models to be applied at different abstraction levels, defines methodologies for model-driven engineering of such systems and outlines the new technologies and validation and verification environments supporting this.
Author: Peter A. Lee Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 370918990X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
The production of a new version of any book is a daunting task, as many authors will recognise. In the field of computer science, the task is made even more daunting by the speed with which the subject and its supporting technology move forward. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1981 much research has been conducted, and many papers have been written, on the subject of fault tolerance. Our aim then was to present for the first time the principles of fault tolerance together with current practice to illustrate those principles. We believe that the principles have (so far) stood the test of time and are as appropriate today as they were in 1981. Much work on the practical applications of fault tolerance has been undertaken, and techniques have been developed for ever more complex situations, such as those required for distributed systems. Nevertheless, the basic principles remain the same.
Author: Martin L. Shooman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471464066 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
With computers becoming embedded as controllers in everything from network servers to the routing of subway schedules to NASA missions, there is a critical need to ensure that systems continue to function even when a component fails. In this book, bestselling author Martin Shooman draws on his expertise in reliability engineering and software engineering to provide a complete and authoritative look at fault tolerant computing. He clearly explains all fundamentals, including how to use redundant elements in system design to ensure the reliability of computer systems and networks. Market: Systems and Networking Engineers, Computer Programmers, IT Professionals.
Author: Amrit L. Goel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 125
Book Description
The objectives of this study are to (1) assess the current state of the art of fault tolerant software schemes, (2) evaluate the status of various software engineering issues in this context, (3) identify critical gaps in the currently available technology and, (4) provide recommendations for research and development efforts to enhance the technological base of fault tolerant software engineering. Towards these objectives, we have discussed several software fault tolerance schemes, studied the available experimental and analytical evidence about their usefulness and assessed the current status of fault tolerant software engineering for sequential and parallel computers. Based on the studies reported here, we feel that the current state-of-the-art of fault tolerant software is mature enough to tolerate design faults in specific circumstances with appropriate provisions of redundancy and allied supporting mechanisms. However, no known fault tolerance technique can guarantee failure-free system operation. Further, it is questionable whether the current approaches are cost-effective in achieving the desired gain in operational software reliability. We feel that what is needed is a systematic, cost effective approach to software development which explicitly addresses the fault tolerance issues throughout the development life-cycle.
Author: Manfred Kersken Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642847250 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 250
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The first ESPRIT programme contained several ambitious projects. of which REQUEST. with its wide brief covering all issues of assessment of quality and reliability of software process and product. was one. Within REQUEST. the research described in this volume. concerning those special problems of software that is required to have extremely high reliability. was particularly difficult and ambitious. The problems of software reliability are essentially twofold. On the one hand there is a concern with methods for achieving adequate reliability. on the other hand there is a need to evaluate what has actually been achieved in a particular case. Naturally. far more effort has been spent over the years on the former problem; indeed. there is a sense in which all of conventional software engineering can be seen as a response to this problem. However. it is becoming clearer than ever that we can only claim to have a truly sCientific approach. and so justify the description software engineering. when we are able to measure the attributes of process and product. It is still common to find software development methods recommended to users on purely anecdotal grounds. This is not good enough. Rational choices between rival approaches can only be made on the basis of quantified costs and benefits. Even more worrying is the tendency to argue that a software product can be depended upon merely because it has been developed by honest men using such anecdotal 'good practice'.
Author: Elena Dubrova Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461421136 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 195
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This textbook serves as an introduction to fault-tolerance, intended for upper-division undergraduate students, graduate-level students and practicing engineers in need of an overview of the field. Readers will develop skills in modeling and evaluating fault-tolerant architectures in terms of reliability, availability and safety. They will gain a thorough understanding of fault tolerant computers, including both the theory of how to design and evaluate them and the practical knowledge of achieving fault-tolerance in electronic, communication and software systems. Coverage includes fault-tolerance techniques through hardware, software, information and time redundancy. The content is designed to be highly accessible, including numerous examples and exercises. Solutions and powerpoint slides are available for instructors.
Author: Michael Butler Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540482679 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
This book brings together 19 papers focusing on the application of rigorous design techniques to the development of fault-tolerant, software-based systems. It is an outcome of the REFT 2005 Workshop on Rigorous Engineering of Fault-Tolerant Systems held in conjunction with the Formal Methods 2005 conference at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in July 2005.
Author: Israel Koren Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0128181060 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 418
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Fault-Tolerant Systems, Second Edition, is the first book on fault tolerance design utilizing a systems approach to both hardware and software. No other text takes this approach or offers the comprehensive and up-to-date treatment that Koren and Krishna provide. The book comprehensively covers the design of fault-tolerant hardware and software, use of fault-tolerance techniques to improve manufacturing yields, and design and analysis of networks. Incorporating case studies that highlight more than ten different computer systems with fault-tolerance techniques implemented in their design, the book includes critical material on methods to protect against threats to encryption subsystems used for security purposes. The text’s updated content will help students and practitioners in electrical and computer engineering and computer science learn how to design reliable computing systems, and how to analyze fault-tolerant computing systems. Delivers the first book on fault tolerance design with a systems approach Offers comprehensive coverage of both hardware and software fault tolerance, as well as information and time redundancy Features fully updated content plus new chapters on failure mechanisms and fault-tolerance in cyber-physical systems Provides a complete ancillary package, including an on-line solutions manual for instructors and PowerPoint slides
Author: Robert S. Hanmer
Author: Israel Koren
Author: P. Pelliccione
Author: Peter A. Lee
Author: Martin L. Shooman
Author: Amrit L. Goel
Author: Manfred Kersken
Author: Elena Dubrova
Author: Michael Butler
Author: Israel Koren