Application-Driven Reliability Measures and Evaluation Tool for Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems

Abstract

The goals of this project were the development of performance measures suitable for use in real-time embedded systems. Developed a network measure to guide the designer in choosing an appropriate network topology. The measure combines graphic-theoretic concepts in evaluating the underlying reliability of the network and other means to evaluate the ability of the network to support interprocessor traffic. A second measure, called the computer measure, is meant to evaluated the computer system in terms that are of importance for real-time applications. A simulator testbed called TRIDENT was built to evaluate the network and surge measures. Much of the technology developed under this project is being transferred to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA390720

Entities

People

  • C. M. Krishna
  • I. Koren

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Topology
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Simulators
  • Target Tracking
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Networking
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.