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Programming Language Constructs Supporting Fault Tolerance

Authors Christina Houben, Sebastian Houben

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  • Fault tolerance
  • Functional safety
  • PEARL
  • Embedded systems
  • Software engineering

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Abstract

In order to render software viable for highly safety-critical applications, we describe how to incorporate fault tolerance mechanisms into the real-time programming language PEARL. Therefore, we present, classify, evaluate and illustrate known fault tolerance methods for software. We link them together with the requirements of the international standard IEC 61508-3 for functional safety. We contribute PEARL-2020 programming language constructs for fault tolerance methods that need to be implemented by operating systems, and code-snippets as well as libraries for those independent from runtime systems.

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Christina Houben and Sebastian Houben. Programming Language Constructs Supporting Fault Tolerance. In LITES, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2016). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 01:1-01:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LITES-v003-i001-a001

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Christina Houben
  • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Chemical Institutes, Bonn
Sebastian Houben
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institute for Neural Computation, Bochum

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