Fault Tolerance for Real-Time Embedded Applications

Fault tolerance is a means of achieving high dependability for critical and high-availability systems. One of the difficulties in the application of fault tolerance is the lack of support from operating systems and middleware. In particular, for small-scale embedded systems, the introduction of fault tolerance techniques may also have impact on their restricted resources. This book presents an approach to provide fault tolerance support for real-time applications in small-scale embedded systems. The main idea is to integrate a customizable and extendable fault tolerance framework into a real-time operating system, in order to fulfill the needs of a large range of dependable applications. In addition, this book also covers the application of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to the development of real-time embedded fault-tolerant software.

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Francisco Afonso es licenciado en Ingeniería Electrónica (Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil), tiene una Maestría en Ciencias de la Computación (Escuela Naval de Postgrado, EE.UU.) y un Doctorado en Informática Industrial (Universidad de Minho, Portugal). Ha trabajado varios años en el desarrollo de software y la gestión de proyectos de sistemas de mando y control naval.