Masking Faults While Providing Bounded-Time Phased Recovery

  • Authors:
  • Borzoo Bonakdarpour;Sandeep S. Kulkarni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA MI 48824;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA MI 48824

  • Venue:
  • FM '08 Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We focus on synthesis techniques for transforming existing fault-intolerant real-time programs to fault-tolerant programs that provide phased recovery. A fault-tolerant program is one that satisfies its safetyand livenessspecifications as well as timing constraintsin the presence of faults. We argue that in many commonly considered programs (especially in mission-critical systems), when faults occur, simple recovery to the program's normal behavior is necessary, but not sufficient. For such programs, it is necessary that recovery is accomplished in a sequence of phases, each ensuring that the program satisfies certain properties. In this paper, we show that, in general, synthesizing fault-tolerant real-time programs that provide bounded-time phased recovery is NP-complete. We also characterize a sufficient condition for cases where synthesizing fault-tolerant real-time programs that provide bounded-time phased recovery can be accomplished in polynomial-time in the size of the input program's region graph.