Title :
Fault tolerance-a software approach
Author :
Murthy, T.K. ; Sinha, Mukul K.
Author_Institution :
Expert Software Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
Abstract :
A description is given of the design and implementation of FToS, a fault tolerant system implemented with a software approach. FToS is a low cost fault tolerant system, well suited to online applications. It is application independent and guides the application in data updates and application startup and shutdown. It follows the approach of redundancy, but unlike conventional redundancy, FToS allows additional hardware to be utilized to its full capacity when there is no failure. The current implementation is on Unix System V.3
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; software reliability; C language; FToS; Unix System V.3; application startup; data updates; fault tolerant system; online applications; redundancy; software reliability; Aircraft; Application software; Computer applications; Control systems; Costs; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Floors; Hardware; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '89. Fourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Bombay
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1989.176964
