A Multi-Step Simulation Approach Toward Secure Fault Tolerant System Evaluation

Abstract

As new techniques of fault tolerance and security emerge, so does the need for suitable tools to evaluate them. This paper presents a multi-step, simulation-based performance evaluation methodology for secure fault tolerant systems. A divide-and-conquer approach is used to model the entire secure system in a way that allows the use of different analytical tools at different levels of granularity. This evaluation procedure tries to strike a balance between the efficiency, effort, cost and accuracy of a system's performance analysis. This approach is demonstrated in a step-by-step manner by analyzing the performance of a secure and fault tolerant system using a JAVA implementation in conjunction with the ARENA simulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA549003

Entities

People

  • Kevin Kwiat
  • Ruchika Mehresh
  • Shambhu J. Upadhyaya

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Computer Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Efficiency
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Hierarchies
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Prototypes
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design