Design and analysis of some fault-tolerance configurations based on a multipath principle

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Abstract

In this article, some software fault-tolerance configurations based on a multipath principle are studied. System structural reliability is considered from theoretical and practical points of view. The results can be useful in making decisions related to the design and selection of fault-tolerance configurations in practice. The structures studied here are implementable in many real-time and other systems for which both reliability and computational complexity have to be considered. A system designed using the proposed fault-tolerance principle shows that the approach is feasible and has many advantages.

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