A COTS wrapping toolkit for fault tolerant applications under Windows NT

Author

Benso, Alfredo ; Chiusano, Silvia ; Prinetto, Paolo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politecnico di Torino, Italy

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

16

Abstract

The paper presents a software toolkit that allows one to enhance the fault tolerant characteristics of a user application running under a Windows NT platform through sets of interchangeable and customizable fault tolerant interposition agents (FTI agents). Interposition agents are non-application software programs executed in an intermediate layer between the software application and the operating system in order to “wrap” the application software, intercepting and possibly modifying all the communications between the application and the surrounding hardware and software environment. The process is completely transparent to both the user application and the operating system and allows the achievement of a high degree of software based reliability in a wide variety of domains

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; operating systems (computers); software agents; COTS wrapping toolkit; FTI agents; Windows NT; Windows NT platform; commercial off the shelf systems; customizable fault tolerant interposition agents; fault tolerant applications; fault tolerant characteristics; intermediate layer; non-application software programs; operating system; software application; software based reliability; software environment; software toolkit; user application; Application software; Costs; Digital systems; Electrical capacitance tomography; Environmental economics; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Informatics; Operating systems; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

On-Line Testing Workshop, 2000. Proceedings. 6th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Palma de Mallorca

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0646-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OLT.2000.856605

Filename

856605