Philip Axer
ABSTRACT
Methods such as rollback and modular redundancy are efficient to correct transient errors. In hard real-time systems, however, correction has a strong impact on response times, also on tasks that were not directly affected by errors. Due to deadline misses, these tasks eventually fail to provide correct service. In this paper we present a reliability analysis for periodic task sets and static priorities that includes realistic detection and roll-back scenarios and covers a hyperperiod instead of just a critical instant and therefore leads to much higher accuracy than previous approaches. The approach is compared with Monte-Carlo simulation to demonstrate the accuracy and with previous approaches covering critical instants to evaluate the improvements.
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- Reliability analysis for MPSoCs with mixed-critical, hard real-time constraints
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