• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.598-603
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• 2009

The checkpointing scheme is a well-known technique to cope with transient faults in digital systems. This paper proposes an adaptive checkpointing scheme for the reliability improvement of real-time control systems. The proposed adaptive checkpointing scheme is based on the previous work about the reliability problem of an equidistant checkpointing scheme. For the derivation of the adaptive scheme, some conditions are introduced which are to be satisfied for the reliability improvement by exploiting an equidistant checkpointing scheme. Numerical data show the proposed adaptive scheme outperforms the equidistant scheme from a reliability point of view.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.72-77
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• 2011

The checkpointing scheme is a well-known technique to cope with transient faults in digital systems. This paper proposes an adaptive checkpointing scheme for the reliability improvement of real-time control systems with concurrent fault detection capability. With concurrent fault detection capability the effect of transient faults are assumed to be detected with no latency. The proposed adaptive checkpointing scheme is based on the reliability analysis of an equidistant checkpointing scheme. Numerical data show the proposed adaptive scheme outperforms the equidistant scheme from a reliability point of view.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.4 s.101
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• pp.289-294
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• 2006

Checkpointing is an effective mechanism that allows a process to resume its execution that was discontinued by a system failure without having to restart from the beginning. Especially, page-level incremental checkpointing saves only the modified pages of a process to minimize the checkpointing overhead. This means that in incremental checkpointing, the time consumed for checkpointing varies according to the amount of modified pages. Thus, the efficient interval of checkpointing must be determined on run-time of the process. In this paper, we present an efficient and adaptive page-level incremental checkpointing facility that is based on the cost analysis of process execution time. In our simulation, results show that the proposed mechanism significantly reduced the average process execution time compared with existing fixed-interval-based page-level incremental checkpointing.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.25-29
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• 2008

In this paper, we provide an adaptive power-aware checkpointing scheme for fixed priority-based DVS scheduling in dependable real-time systems. In the provided scheme, we analyze the minimum number of tolerable faults of a task and the optimal checkpointing interval in order to meet the deadline and guarantee its specified reliability. The energy-efficient voltage level at a fault arrival is also analyzed and used in the recovery of the faulty task.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.90-92
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• 1999

비동기 체크포인팅 프로토콜은 분산 시스템에서 고장 감내성을 제공하기 위한 방법중 하나다. 이 방법은 모든 프로세스가 독립적으로 자신의 지역 체크포인트를 두고 어느 한 프로세스에서의 고장 발생시 가장 최근의 체크포인트에서부터 롤백을 하는 것이다. 하지만 이 방법은 어느 한 프로세스에서의 고장 발생이 다른 프로세스의 롤백까지 유도하는 캐스캐이드 롤백을 발생시킬 수 있는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 고장 감내성의 수준을 높이기 위하여 비동기 체크포인팅 프로토콜을 사용하면서도 캐스캐이드 롤백을 막을 수 있는 적응형 체크포인팅 프로토콜을 사용한다. 프로세스사이에 오고가는 모든 메시지의 복사본이 서버쪽의 중재자를 통하여 서버에 있는 기계 상태 테이블에 저장된다. 이렇게 하여 서버에는 무든 지역 기계의 상태가 저장되어 기계 고장이 발생했을 경우에 고장이 발생한 기계의 복구에 사용된다.