Breaking the Limits of Redundancy Systems Analysis

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Abstract

Redundancy mechanisms such as triple modular redundancy protect safety-critical components by replication and thus improve systems fault tolerance. However, the gained fault tolerance comes along with costs to be invested, e.g., increasing execution time, energy consumption, or packaging size, for which constraints have to be obeyed during system design. This turns the question of finding suitable combinations of components to be protected into a challenging task as the number of possible protection combinations grows exponentially in the number of components. We propose family-based approaches to tackle the combinatorial blowup in redundancy systems modeling and analysis phases. Based on systems designed in SIMULINK we show how to obtain models that include all possible protection combinations and present a tool chain that, given a probabilistic error model, generates discrete Markov chain families. Using symbolic techniques that enable concise family representation and analysis, we show how SIMULINK models of realistic size can be protected and analyzed with a single family-based analysis run while a one-by-one analysis of each protection combination would clearly exceed any realistic time constraints.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)
EditorsMichael Beer, Enrico Zio
PublisherResearch Publishing Services
Pages2317-2324
Number of pages8
ISBN (print)978-981-11-2724-3
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesEuropean Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)
Volume2019

Conference

Title29th European Safety and Reliability Conference
Abbreviated titleESREL 2019
Conference number
Duration22 - 26 September 2019
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
Location
CityHannover
CountryGermany

External IDs

Scopus 85081106215
ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/142236709

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • redundancy systems analysis, fault tolerance, Model-based stochastic analysis, Probabilistic model checking, SIMULINK