Toward Tolerating Soft Errors for Network Data Packets

Abstract

AbstractNowadays, network data packets use checksum methodology to detect the soft error. But the drawback of this methodology is that it cannot detect exactly which data bit is erroneous. To overcome and minimize soft errors for network data packets, we have proposed a new method, which can detect and correct single-bit and multiple bits’ soft errors without using any backup, i.e., Error Correction Code (ECC). It also uses the compressed packed down data bits’ technique, which helps to minimize the data packet size. The experimental study shows that the error detection and correction capability of the proposed method are much higher than the checksum method by incurring a considerable bit overhead and the time requirement is lessened as well in the proposed method.KeywordsSoft error toleranceCheck-sumMultiple bit upsetSingle bit upsetData packets