(CS60058) FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS

Spring 2014


Instructor

Soumyajit Dey
Office: Room 306, CSE Building
Email: soumya @ cse.iitkgp.ernet.in

Class Timing

Wednesday: 11:30 - 12:30 am
Thursday: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Friday: 9:30 am - 10:30 am

You may think of revising your knowledge about linear differential equations from here

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Linear.aspx (Note that the entire PDF is downloadable). Also, recollect
your knowledge about Laplace transforms from any standard Engineering Math text.

Evaluation

The course provides an introduction to the following topics of Fault tolerant computing,
1. Introduction.
2. Hardware fault tolerance.
3. Information redundancy.
4. Fault-tolerant Networks.
5. Software fault-tolerance.
6. Checkpointing.
7. Software reliability: current trends and techniques


  • Course Project Allocation
  • Assignment 1 marks
  • Assignment 2 marks