An evaluation of the error detection mechanisms in MARS using software-implemented fault injection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1150, Issue , 1996, Pages 73-90

  Fuchs, Emmerich ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

APPLICATION LEVEL; DETECTION CAPABILITY; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ERROR-DETECTION MECHANISM; MAINTAINABLE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTED FAULT INJECTIONS; SYSTEM-LEVEL SOFTWARE; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 84958985187     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61772-8_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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