Overcoming babbling-idiot failures in CAN networks: A simple and effective bus guardian solution for the FlexCAN architecture

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-233

  Buja, Giuseppe ^a,b   Pimentel, Juan R ^a,c   Zuccollo, Alberto ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babbling idiot faults; Bus guardian; CAN networks; FlexCAN architecture

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FAULT TOLERANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BABBLING-IDIOT FAULTS; BUS GUARDIAN; CAN NETWORKS; FLEXCAN ARCHITECTURE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547809318     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2007.904144     Document Type: Article

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