Design and Implementation of Failover Federates Supporting Fault Tolerance for HLA Based Simulations

Author

Han Yibo ; Wang Qun ; Zhang Wei

Author_Institution

China Univ. of Geosci., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 March 2010

Firstpage

946

Lastpage

949

Abstract

With the increasing scale and complexity of HLA based simulations, fault tolerance is gradually becoming a pressing problem. This paper addresses the challenges in realizing a failover federate to support fault tolerance for HLA based simulations. Based on the analysis of the fault tolerance problem, the failover federate is described firstly. It comprises a primary federate and a standby federate. Next, the failover federate is designed through exploiting the fault detection problem and fault tolerance dispatching method. Additionally, the implementation detail is explained. Through some testing, it proves that the reliability of the whole simulation systems can be promoted through the introduction of the standby federates.

Keywords

digital simulation; fault tolerant computing; HLA based simulations; failover federate design; fault detection problem; fault tolerance dispatching method; high level architecture; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer simulation; Cyclic redundancy check; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5001-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5739-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMTMA.2010.808

Filename

5458633