Premium
A case study in fault tolerant software
Author(s) -
Black J. P.,
Taylor D. J.,
Morgan D. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380110205
Subject(s) - redundancy (engineering) , computer science , reliability engineering , fault tolerance , software , software fault tolerance , real time computing , distributed computing , engineering , operating system
Abstract The addition of redundancy to data structures can be used to improve the ability of a software system to detect and correct errors, and to continue to operate according to its specifications. A case study is presented which indicates how such redundancy can be deployed and exploited at reasonable cost to improve software fault tolerance. Experimental results are reported for the small data base system considered.