Stabilization enabling technology

  • Authors:
  • Shlomi Dolev;Yinnon Haviv

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SSS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Hardware and software components are suggested for enabling the creation of a self-stabilizing os on top of an off-the-shelf, non-self-stabilizing processor. Simple "watchdog" hardware called periodic reset monitor (prm) provides a basic solution. The solution is extended to a stabilization enabling hardware (seh) which removes any real time requirement from the os. A stabilization enabling system that extends the seh with some software components provides the user (the os designer) with a self-stabilizing processor abstraction. Adapting the current os code to be self-stabilizing is supported using a mechanism for enforcing the software configuration.