(CS60058) FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS
Spring 2016
Instructor
Soumyajit Dey
Office: Room 306, CSE Building
Teaching Assistant
Debasmita Lohar
Email: dlohar2009 @ gmail.com
Class Timing
WED(10:00-10:55),
THURS(09:00- 09:55),
FRI(11:00-11:55)
First Meeting : 8/1/16
Venue - CSE 120
Coverage
We list the topics and approximate lecture hours as follows.
0. Dependability Measures and Redundancy Techniques -- 5
1. Hardware fault tolerance -- 5
2. Information redundancy -- 8
3. Fault-tolerant Networks -- 4
4. Software fault-tolerance -- 4
5. Checkpointing -- 4
Advanced topics:
1. Designing reliable embedded control systems -- 5
2. Synthesis of reliable embedded systems using unreliable components -- 3
3. Optimization techniques for reliability refinement -- 2
Midsem paper
Endsem paper
Endsem paper solution
References
1. Fault-Tolerant Systems, Israel Koren and C. Mani Krishna, Morgan-Kaufman Publishers, 2007
2. Fault Tolerant Design: an introduction - Elena Dubrova link
3. Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering - Edited by Michael R. Lyu link
4. Probability and statictics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications - Kishore S. Trivedi
Relevant Journal, Conference papers/Technical reports
1. "Design and Architectures for Dependable Embedded Systems" - J. Henkel et. al., CODES+ISSS 2011.
2. Routing in Injured Hypercubes
3. Techniques for Modeling the Reliability of
Fault-Tolerant Systems With the Markov
State-Space Approach -
Evaluation
- Midsem - 30
- Endsem - 40
- Assignments - 30, Assignment Breakup : All Analytical (5) + Programming1 (5) + Programming2 (10) + Programming3 (10)