Wireless reconfigurability of fault-tolerant processing systems

• Main Author: Tang, Melinda Y
• Other Authors: Joseph A. Kochocki and Barbara H. Liskov.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53168

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56). === This thesis examines the use of wireless data buses for communication in a real-time computer system designed for applications with high reliability requirements. This work is based on the Draper Laboratory Software Based Redundancy Management System (SBRMS), which is a fault-tolerant system architecture that uses data exchange and voting via Ethernet connections between redundant hardware components to detect and recover from faults. For this thesis, a triplex redundant system was developed that utilized the key features from the SBRMS design, including commercial-off-the-shelf hardware components and robust software partitioning, while replacing the standard Ethernet connection with a wireless Ethernet connection. The implementation of this system is presented and the benefits and potential applications of such a system are discussed. === by Melinda Y. Tang. === M.Eng.