(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

Lecture wise coverage (always under construction!!)

Midsem paper
Endsem paper
Endsem paper solution

Assignments and Evaluation

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