First quantitative results of the dependability improvement achieved by ReCANcentrate

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Manuel Barranco (Author) FEUP; Julián Proenza (Author) FEUP; Luis Almeida (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: ETFA 2009 - 2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation

Pages: 1-4

2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2009

Mallorca, 22 September 2009 through 26 September 2009

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Communication technology > Network tecnology

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Authenticus ID: P-007-SR9

DOI: 10.1109/etfa.2009.5347228

Abstract (EN): There is a growing interest in using star topologies instead of buses as the communication infrastructure for highly-reliable distributed control systems, given the better dependability stars are supposed to provide. For the Controller Area Network (CAN), we developed a simplex and a replicated star called CANcentrate and ReCANcentrate respectively. In a previous work we modelled the dependability of the CAN bus and CANcentrate using Stochastic Activity Networks (SANs). There we presented the first quantitative analysis of the error-containment benefits of a simplex star when considering permanent hardware faults. This paper quantitatively analyzes, for the first time, how a replicated star such as ReCANcentrate can improve both error-containment and reliability, also considering permanent hardware faults. We explain our modelling strategy using SANs and show some first and novel results.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4