Fault-Tolerant Techniques for Ambient Intelligent Distributed Systems

  • Authors:
  • Diana Marculescu;Nicholas H. Zamora;Phillip Stanley-Marbell;Radu Marculescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Ambient Intelligent Systems provide an unexplored hardware platformfor executing distributed applications under strict energy constraints.These systems must respond quickly to changes in userbehavior or environmental conditions and must provide high availabilityand fault-tolerance under given quality constraints. Thesesystems will necessitate fault-tolerance to be built into applications.One way to provide such fault-tolerance is to employ the use of redundancy.Hundreds of computational devices will be available indeeply networked ambient intelligent systems, providing opportunitiesto exploit node redundancy to increase application lifetime orimprove quality of results if it drops below a threshold. Pre-copyingwith remote execution is proposed as a novel, alternative techniqueof code migration to enhance system lifetime for ambient intelligentsystems. Self-management of the system is considered in two differentscenarios: applications that tolerate graceful quality degradationand applications with single-point failures. The proposed techniquecan be part of a design methodology for prolonging the lifetime ofa wide range of applications under various types of faults, despitescarce energy resources.