Title
Software-Based Fault Recovery via Adaptive Diversity for COTS Multi-Core Processors.
Abstract
The ever growing demands of embedded systems to satisfy high computing performance and cost efficiency lead to the trend of using commercial off-the-shelf hardware. However, due to their highly integrated design they are becoming increasingly susceptible to hardware errors (e.g. caused by radiation-induced soft-errors or wear-out effects). Since such faults cannot be fully prevented, systems have to cope with their effects. At the same time there is the trend of multi-core processors in embedded systems. Approaches to achieve fault tolerance by using the multiple cores to establish redundancy have been presented in literature. However, typically only homogeneous redundancy techniques are considered to tolerate soft errors. However, there is a lack of appropriate reaction mechanisms for restoring the system in case of permanent hardware faults. Here, we propose the basic idea of enhancing multi-core redundancy techniques with a cost-efficient automated introduction of diversity in the executed software replicas. Recently, these automated software diversity techniques have attracted attention in the security domain. We propose to use these techniques to recover from permanent hardware faults. This is achieved by adapting the software execution in such a way that permanent faults are mitigated.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
arXiv: Software Engineering
Security domain,Computer science,Software fault tolerance,Software,Redundancy (engineering),Fault tolerance,Integrated design,Multi-core processor,Cost efficiency,Embedded system
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1511.03528
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
23
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Höller17414.85
Tobias Rauter25611.60
Johannes Iber350.52
Georg Macher47216.03
Christian Kreiner535266.82