Fault Tolerant Systems in Military Applications,

Abstract

This paper introduces some basic principles and terminology associated with the design of highly reliable computer systems, and describes two experimental, fault tolerant computer systems which have been recently developed for military applications. The first system, called ADNET, demonstrates how a dynamically reconfigurable, local area network can be constructed so that various forms of hardware failure can be tolerated. The second system illustrates how software fault tolerance techniques can be used in a real-time application in order to cope with software design faults and, thereby, improve the software reliability of the system.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 1985
Accession Number
ADP005559

Entities

People

  • M. R. Moulding

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Engineering
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Local Area Networks
  • Military Applications
  • Networks
  • Software Design
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Software Engineering.