7 - dependability Flashcards
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attributes of dependability
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• Safety: absence of harm to people and environment • Availability: the readiness for correct service • Integrity: absence of improper system alterations • Reliability: continuity of correct service • Maintainability: ability to undergo modifications and repairs
2
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metric Reliability
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MTTF
3
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Fault, Error & Failures
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• Fault: a defect within the system or a situation that can lead to failure • Error: manifestation (symptom) of the fault - an unexpected behaviour • Failure: system not performing its intended function
Effects in time:
Transient/ Intermittent / Permanent
4
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Dependability techniques
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- Fault prevention
- Fault removal
- Fault tolerance
- Fault forecasting
5
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Goal of system verification and
validation
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is to remove faults
6
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Goal of hazard/risk analysis
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is to focus
on more important faults
7
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Goal of fault tolerance
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is to reduce
effects of errors if they appear -
eliminate or delay failures
8
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Fault model
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describes the foreseen
faults in fault tolerance
9
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Node failures
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– Crash
– Omission
– Timing
– Byzantine
10
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Channel failures
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in Distributed systems: – Crash (and potential partitions) – Message loss – Message delay – Erroneous/arbitrary messages
11
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On-line error management
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• Detection: By program or its environment • Mitigation: – Fault containment by architectural choices – Fault tolerance using redundancy • in software (redundancy in space or time) • in hardware • in data
12
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Static Redundancy
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Used all the time (whether an error has appeared or not), just in case… – SW: N-version programming – HW: Voting systems – Data: Parity bits, checksums
13
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Dynamic Redundancy
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Used when error appears and specifically aids the treatment – SW: • Space: Exceptions, Rollback recovery • Time: Re-computing a result – HW: Switching to back-up module – Data: Self-correcting codes
14
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Byzantine agreement protocol
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