Title :
Evaluating the Fault Tolerance of Stateful TMR
Author :
Matsumoto, Katsuyoshi ; Uehara, Minoru ; Mori, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Open Inf. Syst., Toyo Univ., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
Module redundancy is often used in the construction of reliable systems. Triple Module Redundancy (TMR) is a method for improving reliability through module redundancy, although it does not give the correct results when two out of three modules fail. We, therefore, proposed a new voting architecture known as Stateful TMR, which uses both the results of TMR and the history of states to select the most reliable module. Through simulations, we evaluate the reliability of a module using both TMR and Stateful TMR, and show that for both transient and permanent failures, Stateful TMR achieves higher reliability than TMR.
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; redundancy; fault tolerance evaluation; module redundancy; permanent failures; reliable systems; stateful TMR; transient failures; triple module redundancy; voting architecture; Fault tolerant systems; Redundancy; Simulation; Transient analysis; Tunneling magnetoresistance; Stateful TMR; fault tolerance; majority voting; module redundancy; permanent failure; reliability; transient failure;
Conference_Titel :
Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2010 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takayama
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8053-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-0418
DOI :
10.1109/NBiS.2010.86