Design Of Fault-tolerant Architecture Research Articles

Rancang Bangun Fault Tolerance pada Sistem Database untuk Aplikasi Point Of Sale

Abstract— A fault tolerant system is a system that has the ability to be able to continue its jobs properly although there is a fault in hardware or software of the system. A system that has a fault tolerant capability is usually critical or important system. For example is at Point Of Sale application. Point Of Sale Application has evolved from offline-based toward online-based. With an online-based, the existence of a central database server must be guaranteed free from failure.To get a central database server that is free from failure is impossible. Something that can be cultivated is to create a system that can tolerate a failure in the central database server. This is done with the help of a second central database server (slave), which is useful as a replication of the central database server (master). To ensure data from these two central database servers are the same, then used the concept of reading and writing "read one/write all". And to manage all the processes needed in implementing a fault tolerant application, we need the help from a coordinator.The result obtained in this research is a design of fault tolerant architecture that can be applied to various types of information system applications include Point Of Sale application. By using this fault tolerant architecture that has been built, Point Of Sale application can still run the transaction process even if there is a failure in accessing data in one central database server (master/slave). Keywords— fault tolerance, database system, point of sale application

Electrical steering of vehicles - fault-tolerant analysis and design

The topic of this paper is systems that need be designed such that no single fault can cause failure at the overall level. A methodology is presented for analysis and design of fault-tolerant architectures, where diagnosis and autonomous reconfiguration can replace high cost triple redundancy solutions and still meet strict requirements to functional safety. The paper applies graph-based analysis of functional system structure to find a novel fault-tolerant architecture for an electrical steering where a dedicated AC-motor design and cheap voltage measurements ensure ability to detect all relevant faults. The paper shows how active control reconfiguration can accommodate all critical faults and the fault-tolerant abilities are demonstrated on a warehouse truck hardware.

A system architecture solution for unreliable nanoelectronic devices

The shrinking of electronic devices will inevitably introduce a growing number of defects and even make these devices more sensitive to external influences. It is, therefore, likely that the emerging nanometer-scale devices will eventually suffer from more errors than classical silicon devices in large scale integrated circuits. In order to make systems based on nanometer-scale devices reliable, the design of fault-tolerant architectures will be necessary. Initiated by von Neumann, the NAND multiplexing technique, based on a massive duplication of imperfect devices and randomized imperfect interconnects, had been studied in the past using an extreme high degree of redundancy. In this paper, this NAND multiplexing is extended to a rather low degree of redundancy, and the stochastic Markov nature in the heart of the system is discovered and studied, leading to a comprehensive fault-tolerant theory. A system architecture based on NAND multiplexing is investigated by studying the problem of the random background charges in single electron tunneling (SET) circuits. It might be a system solution for an ultra large integration of highly unreliable nanometer-scale devices.