A fault-tolerant approach to test control utilizing dual-redundant processors

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 371-383

  Dabney, Richard W ^a   Etzkorn, Letha ^b   Cox, Glenn W ^b  

^a Alleycat Communications   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing; Control; cost benefit; Dual redundant; Duplex; Fault tolerant; Hot standby; Primary; Triplex

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DUAL-REDUNDANT PROCESSORS; FAULT-TOLERANT CONTROL SYSTEMS; HOT STANDBY;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 38349032606     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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