Evaluation of fault-tolerance latency from real-time application´s perspectives

Information on Fault-Tolerance Latency (FTL), which is defined as the total time required by all sequential steps taken to recover from an error, is important to the design and evaluation of fault-tolerant computers used in safety-critical real-time control systems with deadline information. In this paper we evaluate FTL in terms of several random and deterministic variables accounting for fault behaviors and/or the capability and performance of error-handling mechanisms, while considering various fault-tolerance mechanisms based on the tradeoff between temporal and spatial redundancy, and use the evaluated FTL to check if an error-handling policy can meet the Control System Deadline (CSD) for a given real-time application