Publication detail

Impact of Software Fault Tolerance to Fault Effects in OS-Driven RT Systems

STRNADEL, J. SLIMAŘÍK, F.

Original Title

Impact of Software Fault Tolerance to Fault Effects in OS-Driven RT Systems

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Real-time kernels are often utilized to simplify the design of embedded time/safety-critical applications. However, embedded systems are sensitive to transient and other faults, each of which can lead to various errors at various system levels and can potentially result in the system failure. In existing works, the real-time kernels' sensitivity to transient SEU errors was studied only with the goal to classify SEU impacts to the system behavior. In this paper, the study is extended to permanent faults being injected into the persistent program (firmware) memory and into the volatile data memory. Moreover, it is studied there how the sensitivity is affected if combination of software fault-tolerant techniques is built into various levels of the system. On the experimental basis, it is shown that some fault impacts are difficult to be softened by common fault-tolerant techniques.

Keywords

fault, effect, error, fault tolerance, real time, operating system, software, firmware

Authors

STRNADEL, J.; SLIMAŘÍK, F.

RIV year

2014

Released

1. 12. 2014

ISBN

1335-9150

Periodical

Computing and Informatics

Year of study

33

Number

4

State

Slovak Republic

Pages from

757

Pages to

782

Pages count

26

URL

http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/852/651

BibTex

@article{BUT113109,
  author="Josef {Strnadel} and František {Slimařík}",
  title="Impact of Software Fault Tolerance to Fault Effects in OS-Driven RT Systems",
  journal="Computing and Informatics",
  year="2014",
  volume="33",
  number="4",
  pages="757--782",
  issn="1335-9150",
  url="http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/852/651"
}