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A Fault-Tolerant Architectural Approach for Dependable Systems

de Lemos, Rogério, de C. Guerra, P.A., Rubira, Cecilia M. F. (2006) A Fault-Tolerant Architectural Approach for Dependable Systems. IEEE Software, 23 (2). pp. 80-87. ISSN 0740-7459. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.35) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14496)

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Abstract

A system's structure enables it to generate its intended behavior from its components' behavior. A well-structured system simplifies relationships among components, which can increase dependability. With software systems, the architecture is an abstraction of the structure. Architectural reasoning about dependability has become increasingly important because emerging applications are increasingly complex. We've developed an architectural approach for effectively representing and analyzing fault-tolerant software systems. The proposed solution relies on exception handling to tolerate faults associated with component and connector failures, architectural mismatches, and configuration faults. Our approach, a specialization of the peer-to-peer architectural style, hides inside the architectural elements the complexities of exception handling and propagation. Our goal is to improve a system's overall reliability and availability by making it tolerant of nonmalicious faults.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/MS.2006.35
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2008 18:04 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:52 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14496 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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