The design of computer systems to be embedded in critical real-time applications is a complex task. Such systems must not only guarantee to meet hard real-time deadlines imposed by their physical environment, they must guarantee to do so dependably, despite both physical faults (in hardware) and design faults (in hardware or software). A fault-tolerance approach is mandatory for these guarantees to be commensurate with the safety and reliability requirements of many life- and mission-critical applications. This book explains the motivations and the results of a collaborative project', whose objective was to significantly decrease the lifecycle costs of such fault tolerant systems. The end-user companies participating in this project already deploy fault-tolerant systems in critical railway, space and nuclear-propulsion applications. However, these are proprietary systems whose architectures have been tailored to meet domain-specific requirements. This has led to very costly, inflexible, and often hardware-intensive solutions that, by the time they are developed, validated and certified for use in the field, can already be out-of-date in terms of their underlying hardware and software technology.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792372950
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-7295-0
- Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.01.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2001. Auflage 2001
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1210 g
- Seiten: 242
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt