The TIRAN approach to reusing software implemented fault tolerance

Author

Botti, O. ; Florio, V. De ; Deconinck, G. ; Lauwereins, R. ; Cassinari, F. ; Donatelli, S. ; Bobbio, A. ; Klein, A. ; Kufner, H. ; Thurner, E. ; Verhulst, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of R&D, ENEL S.p.A., Milan, Italy

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

325

Lastpage

332

Abstract

Available solutions for fault tolerance in embedded automation are often based on strong customisation, have impacts on the whole life-cycle, and require highly specialised design teams, thus making dependable embedded systems costly and difficult to develop and maintain. The TIRAN project develops a framework which provides fault tolerance capabilities to automation systems, with the goal of allowing portable, reusable and cost-effective solutions. Application developers are allowed to select, configure and integrate in their own environment a variety of software-based functions for error detection, confinement and recovery provided by the framework

Keywords

embedded systems; software fault tolerance; software reusability; system recovery; TIRAN approach; TIRAN project; cost-effective solutions; dependable embedded systems; embedded automation; error detection; fault tolerance capabilities; highly specialised design teams; software implemented fault tolerance reuse; software-based functions; whole life-cycle; Application software; Computer industry; Cost function; Design automation; Embedded software; Embedded system; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Real time systems; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 8th Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rhodos

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0500-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2000.823427

Filename

823427