Title :
A Columbus´ egg idea for CAN media redundancy
Author :
Rufino, J. ; Verissimo, P. ; Arroz, G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. Superior Tecnico, Univ. Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Abstract :
Network media redundancy is a clean and effective way of achieving high levels of reliability against temporary medium faults and availability in the presence of permanent faults. This is specially true of critical control applications such as those supported by the Controller Area Network (CAN). In our endeavor to provide CAN with media redundancy we ended-up devising a scheme which is extraordinarily simpler than previous approaches known for CAN or other LANs and field-buses.
Keywords :
controller area networks; fault tolerant computing; field buses; local area networks; LANs; controller area network; critical control applications; field buses; network media redundancy; permanent faults; reliability; temporary medium faults; Communication system control; Costs; Fault tolerance; Navigation; Protocols; Redundancy; Safety; Standards development; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1999. Digest of Papers. Twenty-Ninth Annual International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Madison, WI, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0213-X
DOI :
10.1109/FTCS.1999.781063
