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| BII5120 | Fault Tolerant Systems | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of COMPUTER ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Mustafa ULUTAŞ | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Determine the need for FT (Fault Tolerant) computing systems, design FT computers and analyze reliability of FT systems. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Understand the software and hardware requirements of high availability and fault tolerant systems | 1 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 8 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 14 | 1,6 | | PO - 2 : | Design fault tolerant computing systems | 1 - 4 - 5 - 8 - 11 - 12 - 13 | 1,6 | | PO - 3 : | Gain in depth knowledge of both hardware and software fault tolerance | 1 - 4 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 13 - 15 | 1,6 | | PO - 4 : | Learn reliability and lifetime measures | 1 - 3 - 5 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 | 1,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Introduction, architecture of fault tolerant computers, taxonomy, high availability systems, long life systems, critical computations. Fault-tolerance in multiprocessor systems, static redundancy, fault detection, recovery startegies.Reliability estimation, element and system reliability, combinatorial and Markov models,system availability (MTBF), behavioral decomposition, reliability model, coverage models, computer-aided reliability estimation. Fault-tolerant software, reliability models for software, acceptance tests, fault trees, bounded models, probabilistic models. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Faults and their manifestations | | | Week 2 | Fault/error modeling and test generation | | | Week 3 | Reliability, availability and maintainability analysis | | | Week 4 | System evaluation, performance-reliability trade offs | | | Week 5 | System level fault diagnosis | | | Week 6 | Hardware and software redundancy techniques | | | Week 7 | Fault-tolerant system design methods | | | Week 8 | Software fault tolerance | | | Week 9 | Mid-Term Examination | | | Week 10 | Fault-tolerant networks | | | Week 11 | Wireless bulk systems | | | Week 12 | Case studies of fault tolerant systems | | | Week 13 | Current research issues | | | Week 14 | Fault injection methods | | | Week 15 | Fault tolerant on the Mobile computing and mobile communications | | | Week 16 | Final examination | | | |
| 1 | Fault tolerant systems, Koren, I., Krishna, C. M., Morgan Kaufmann, 2010 | | | |
| 1 | Fault-Tolerant Computer System Design, Pradhan, D. K., Prentice-Hall, 1996. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 2 | 30 | | Project | 14 | | 2 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Proje | 30 | 1 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 25 | 1 | 25 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 175 |
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