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Dependability evaluation of fault tolerant distributed industrial control systems

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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Modern distributed industrial control systems need improvements in their dependability. In this paper we study the dependability of a fault tolerant distributed industrial control system designed in our university. This system is based on fault tolerant nodes interconnected by two communication networks. This paper begins showing the architecture of a single node in the distributed system. Reliability and safety results for this node are presented using a theoretical model based on Stochastic Activity Networks (SAN). Based on this architecture, the theoretical model of the distributed system is then presented; in order to evaluate the reliability and safety of the whole system models based on stochastic activity networks are used, and the results obtained using UltraSAN are presented.

This work is supported by the Spanish CICYT under project CICYT-TAP96-1090-C04-01

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

    J. C. Campelo, P. Yuste, F. Rodríguez, P. J. Gil & J. J. Serrano

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Campelo, J.C., Yuste, P., Rodríguez, F., Gil, P.J., Serrano, J.J. (1999). Dependability evaluation of fault tolerant distributed industrial control systems. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097920

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