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Practical issues for the implementation of survivability and recovery techniques in optical networks
Collecting and Analyzing Failure Data of Bluetooth Personal Area Networks
This work presents a failure data analysis campaign on
Bluetooth Personal Area Networks (PANs) conducted on
two kind of heterogeneous testbeds (working for more than
one year). The obtained results reveal how failures distribution
are characterized and suggest how to improve the
dependability of Bluetooth PANs. Specically, we dene the
failure model and we then identify the most effective recovery
actions and masking strategies that can be adopted for
each failure. We then integrate the discovered recovery actions
and masking strategies in our testbeds, improving the
availability and the reliability of 3.64% (up to 36.6%) and
202% (referred to the Mean Time To Failure), respectively
On Systematic Design of Protectors for Employing OTS Items
Off-the-shelf (OTS) components are increasingly used in application areas with stringent dependability requirements. Component wrapping is a well known structuring technique used in many areas. We propose a general approach to developing protective wrappers that assist in integrating OTS items with a focus on the overall system dependability. The wrappers are viewed as redundant software used to detect errors or suspicious activity and to execute appropriate recovery when possible; wrapper development is considered as a part of system integration activities. Wrappers are to be rigorously specified and executed at run time as a means of protecting OTS items against faults in the rest of the system, and the system against the OTS item's faults. Possible symptoms of erroneous behaviour to be detected by a protective wrapper and possible actions to be undertaken in response are listed and discussed. The information required for wrapper development is provided by traceability analysis. Possible approaches to implementing “protectors” in the standard current component technologies are briefly outline
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