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Phased-mission system (PMS) can have a number of mission phases with different system configurations of components. In engineering practice, there exist PMSs that have phases with time redundancy, meaning that the system is required to work in operational state for only a given duration of time within such phase, instead of all the phase duration like traditional PMS. For such complex PMS, it is not...
For critical aerospace applications that experience a high intensity of single event upsets, the cache of a processor has to be protected against soft errors. This poses a challenge for cache design, since implemented redundancy causes timing and performance degradation of a processor. Sound design decisions should be made based on evaluations at every design stage. In this paper we present a platform-oriented...
Sustainability, environmental issues, low-carbon economy, are increasingly impacting on both research and technologies, attracting the attention on energy management issues. New challenges and requirements arise from them and have to match with existing (functional and non-functional) ones as well as with costs. In particular, the IT area has been hit by this "new wave", pushing towards...
Reliability is a critical metric in the design and development of scale-out data storage clusters. A general multiway replication-based declustering scheme has been widely used in enterprise large-scale storage systems to improve the I/O parallelism. Unfortunately, given an increasing number of node failures, how often a cluster starts losing data when being scaled-out is not well investigated. In...
Various methods and models have recently been proposed and applied for evaluating IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in terms of reliability, availability and performance. End-to-end availability is one of the key factors that can improve the quality of service (QoS) and increase the reliability of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). In this paper, an end-to-end availability model is proposed and evaluated...
Optimization of energy efficiency is a major challenge that influences current technical design processes. A data center electrical infrastructure, as a major energy consumer, can be viewed as a microgrid. However, any optimization effort targeted at that local grid has to be governed by consideration of the resulting reliability. Since the required cooling of the IT-components is an on-demand service,...
This paper proposes a model to quantify the reliability of web services. Based on their structures, web services can be classified into the following two kinds: atomic web service which calls no other web services and composite web service consisting of atomic web services. The model first evaluates the reliability of atomic web services from the consumers' perspective. After that this paper points...
The paper is devoted to problem of failure intensity determination for doubled repairable system with standby redundancy based on extended Markov reliability model.
Today's reliability methodologies and tools need to assess increasingly large, complex systems. Moreover, in order to adequately evaluate the system dependability it is necessary to take into the right consideration the system dynamics, which depends on the components' dynamics, on the interdependencies arising among such components (load-sharing, standby redundancy, interferences, etc) and on their...
An improved function block based redundancy approach is proposed in this paper. The structure, link organization and data synchronization of improved function block are described. Furthermore, the non-redundancy model, the corresponding device-level redundancy model and improved function block based redundancy model are analyzed in quantitatively. For 1-0-2 type system, improved function block based...
The reliability of disk storage systems is adversely affected by the presence of latent sector errors. Disk scrubbing and intradisk redundancy are two schemes proposed to cope with unrecoverable or latent media errors and enhance the reliability of RAID storage systems. Two recent studies have investigated the effectiveness of these schemes, but they have reached opposing conclusions. These studies...
Scrubbing is an efficient tool to reduce latent sector errors for long-term storage. There are two established models to evaluate the effect of scrubbing. One is attributed sector errors to the contact of head and disk surface. Accordingly, sector errors are strongly related to the amount of I/O operations. The other model views the sector errors as the consequence of operating conditions. However,...
Advancements in technology enable integration of a large number of cores on a single silicon die. At the same time, aggressive technology scaling has an ever-increasing adverse impact on the lifetime reliability of such large integrated circuits. In this work, we model the lifetime reliability of homogeneous manycore systems using a load-sharing nonrepairable k-out-of-n:G system with general failure...
We present a practical, systematical method for the evaluation of the soft error rate (SER) of microelectronic devices. Existing methodologies, practices and tools are integrated in a common approach while highlighting the need for specific data or tools. The showcased method is particularly adapted for evaluating the SER of very complex microelectronic devices by engineers confronted to increasingly...
In this paper a BISR architecture for embedded memories is presented. The proposed scheme utilises a multiple bank cache-like memory for repairs. Statistical analysis is used for minimisation of the total resources required to achieve a very high fault coverage. Simulation results show that the proposed BISR scheme is characterised by high efficiency and low area overhead, even for high defect densities...
Networks on chips (NoCs) provide a mechanism for handling complex communications in the next generation of integrated circuits. At the same time, lower yield in nano-technology, makes self repair communication channels a necessity in design of digital systems. This paper proposes a reliable NoC architecture based on specific application mapped onto an NoC. This architecture is capable of recovering...
In this paper we present a low cost fault-tolerant attitude determination system to a scientific satellite using COTS devices. We related our experience in developing the attitude determination system, where we combine proven fault tolerance techniques to protect the whole system composed only by COTS from the effects produced by transient faults. We detailed the failure cases and the detection, reconfiguration...
This paper describes a methodology for building a reliable internet core router that considers the vulnerability of its electronic components to single event upset (SEU). It begins with a set of meaningful system level metrics that can be related to product reliability requirements. A specification is then defined that can be effectively used during the system architecture, silicon and software design...
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