Implications of VLSI Fault Models and Distributed Systems Failure Models -- A hardware designeru27s view

摘要

The fault and failure models as well as their semantics within theVLSI and the distributed systems/algorithms community are quitedifferent. Pointing out the mismatch of those fault respectivelyfailure models is the main part of this work. The impact of theimplemented failure model in terms of hardware effort and systemcomplexity will be shown on different VLSI implementations ofdistributed algorithms.However, still, there are a lot of open questions left mostly relatedto the coverage analysis of hardware implemented fault-tolerantalgorithms.