XFTRTS - A XtratuM Based Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Control System

Abstract:

Nowadays there are a few works which are concerned with the virtualization technology and the fault-tolerance technology, because virtualization system can provide an environment allowing multiple operating systems running in concurrent way. In this paper, we based on a real-time hypervisor-XtratuM, propose the architecture of a fault-tolerant real-time control system (XFTRTS), which provide local backup execution and to support different level diversity including N-version programming on a single host. Furthermore, we implement a prototype of XFTRTS and test its important performance metric–latency, which is within two microseconds.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 4095-4100
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.4095
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Chan Juan Li, Chuan De Zhang, Qing Guo Zhou
• Keywords: Fault Tolerance, Virtualisation, Xtratum

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