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Dependable Design: Trade-Off Between the Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Functions and Resources

Authors:
Jose Ignacio Aizpurua Unanue
Eñaut Muxika Olasagasti

Keywords: Dependable design; distributed systems; reconfigurable systems; shared (quasi) redundancy

Abstract:
Designing a dependable system by reducing costs is a challenging issue. Traditional design strategies replicate resources in order to improve fault-tolerant capabilities of the system, which leads to increasing the hardware cost. Originated from over-dimensioning decisions, we outline an approach to identify and gather inherent compatible resources of the system to accomplish equivalent functions. Inference of reconfiguration strategies from the inherent design redundancies of the system not only decreases the hardware cost, but also maintains, or even improves the dependability of the system.

Pages: 13 to 17

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-212-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012