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Fault tolerance through redundant COTS components for satellite processing applications

McLoughlin, Ian Vince, Gupta, V., Sandhu, G.S., Lim, S., Bretschneider, T.R. (2003) Fault tolerance through redundant COTS components for satellite processing applications. Fourth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2003 and the Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia. Proceedings of the 2003 Joint, 1 . pp. 269-299. (doi:10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292463) (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:48814)

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Abstract

Satellites and other space systems typically employ rare and expensive radiation tolerant, radiation hardened or at least military qualified parts for computational and other subsystems to ensure reliability in the harsh environment of space. In this paper, a parallel architecture is proposed that allows commercial devices to be incorporated into a computational unit with aggregate reliability figures approaching that of space-qualified alternatives. Apart from the common argument of cost, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) devices are attractive due to their relatively low power consumption and high processing performance. This paper describes a COTS-based processing architecture for space-borne computers and compares its reliability to a common alternative radiation hardened configuration.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292463
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: Y1 - 2003/// [EPrints field already has value set]
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Ian McLoughlin
Date Deposited: 03 Sep 2015 11:16 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:19 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/48814 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

McLoughlin, Ian Vince.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-2008
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