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VTU-M.TECH. COMPUTER ENGINEERING-Fault-Tolerant Systems
Posted Date: 12 Sep 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Syllabus
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Posted By: Lenin Member Level: Diamond
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Fault-Tolerant Systems
Subject Code: 08SCE31 I.A. Marks : 50
Hours/Week : 04 Exam Hours: 03
Total Hours : 52 Exam Marks: 100
1. Introduction
Fault classification; Types of Redundancy; Basic measures of Fault
Tolerance.
2. Hardware Fault Tolerance
The rate of hardware failures; Failure rate, Reliability, and Mean Time To
Failure; Canonical and Resilient Structures; Other Reliability Evaluation
Techniques; Fault-Tolerance – Processor-Level techniques; Byzantine
Failures.
3. Information Redundancy
Coding; Resilient Disk Systems; Data Replication; Algorithm-Based Fault
Tolerance.
4. Fault-Tolerant Networks
Measures of Resilience; Common Network Topologies and Their
Resilience; Fault-Tolerant Routing.
5. Software Fault Tolerance
Acceptance Tests; Single-Version Fault Tolerance; N-Version
Programming; Recovery Block Approach; Preconditions, Postconditions,
and Assertions; Exception Handling; Software Reliability Models; Fault-
Tolerant Remote Procedure Calls.
6. Checkpointing
What is Checkpointing? Checkpoint Level; Optimal Checkpointing – An
Analytical Model; Cache-Aided Rollback Error Recovery; Checkpointing
in Distributed Systems; Checkpointing in Shared Memory Systems;
Checkpointing in Real-Time Systems; Other uses of Checkpointing.
7. Defect Tolerance in VLSI Circuits
Manufacturing Defects and Circuit Faults; Probability of Failure and
Critical Areas; Basic Yield Models; Yield Enhancement through
Redundancy.
8. Fault Detection in Cryptographic Systems
Overview of Ciphers; Security Attacks through Fault Injection;
Countermeasures.
9. Case Studies
Non-Stop Systems; Stratus Systems; Cassini Command and Data Sub-
System; IBM G5; IBM Sysplex; Itanium.
Text Books:
1. Israel Koren, C. Mani Krishna: Fault-Tolerant Systems, Elsevier, 2007.
Reference Books:
1. D. K. Pradhan (Ed): fault Tolerant Computer Systems Design, Prentice
Hall, 1996.
2. K. S. Trivedi: Probability, Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and
Computer Science Applications, John Wiley, 2002.
For more details, visit http://www.vtu.ac.in
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