Protocol Membership in Dependable Distributed Communication Systems - A Question of Brittleness

This paper describes results from fault injection experiments using heavy ions in the time-triggered communication protocol for safety critical distributed systems (TTP/C, C1 implementation). The observed results show that arbitrary faults in one erroneous node could cause inconsistencies in the cluster and thus jeopardize correctly working nodes and the whole communication system. The described inconsistencies resulted from either asymmetric value faults or slightly out of specification timing faults. This system behavior can be partly explained by too strict constraints on the fault handling algorithms using the membership agreement protocol.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-0108
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
• Authors:
  • Sivencrona, Håkan
  • Johannessen, Per
  • Torin, Jan
• Conference:
  • SAE 2003 World Congress & Exhibition
  • Location: Detroit Michigan, United States
  • Date: 2003-3-3 to 2003-3-6
• Publication Date: 2001-10-28

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Computer network protocols; Mathematical models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01802213
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: SAE International
• Report/Paper Numbers: 2003-01-0108
• Files: TRIS, SAE
• Created Date: Dec 9 2021 10:24AM