Self-stabilization
Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control
Communications of the ACM
Reconfiguring self-stabilizing publish/subscribe systems
DSOM'06 Proceedings of the 17th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Distributed Systems: operations and management
Self-organizing and self-stabilizing role assignment in sensor/actuator networks
ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
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The reliability of embedded systems is under constant pressure from miniaturization and cost savings. At some point miniaturized systems built into articles of daily use will show temporary hardware faults, induced for example by temperature changes, radiation of phones passing by, or simply mechanical stress. Thus, software can no longer safely assume that hardware offers fail-stop semantics. This paper shows how to build a self-stabilizing system that can recover from temporary hardware faults. Our approach is mainly carried out in software and requires only little hardware support. The goal is to deliver a low-cost system that can repair itself in constant time from a very wide range of faults.