Design and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Systems
Computer Engineering Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Research projects include:
Fault
injection in COTS applications
Verifying the equivalence of two Boolean functions is a the heart of all
verification. Since even this problem is very complex in general, we have
developed a variety of solutions to verifying large functions. These include
probabilistic verification, indexed Binary Decision Diagrams, functional
partitioning and the use of multiple filters.
Application-Level Checks for Concurrent Error Detection There
has been a lot of work in hardware techniques for detecting errors
concurrently with normal operation. This research aims to develop application
level checks in software to detect errors due to transient and permanent
hardware faults. The checks are incorporated automatically into user code,
and are executed as part of the application. Control flow checks as well as
data checks based on extensions of the well-known technique of
Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance are studied.
Evaluation of System Reliability
We have developed a hierarchical technique for evaluating system reliability.
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