Fault-Tolerant System

Preface to the second edition

In this second edition of Fault-Tolerant Systems we have retained the original structure of the book while adding material to most chapters.
References have been updated to reflect recent advances in the field.

Our principal additions are as follows:

Chapter 2: A discussion of the principal physical causes of hardware failure.
Chapter 3: Coverage of Low Density Parity Coding, hierarchical RAID as well as a discussion of RAID with solid-state devices.
Chapter 4: Fat-tree topologies, networks-on-a-chip and wireless sensor networks.
Chapter 4: Fat-tree topologies, networks-on-a-chip and wireless sensor networks.
Chapter 5: We now cover the rejuvenation of hypervisor-based systems and introduce the Ostrand-Weyuker-Bell software fault model.
Chapter 6: Material on checkpointing with cloud computing utilities and on checkpointing in petascale and exascale computing has been added .
Chapter 7: This is a new chapter on the increasingly prominent field of Cyber-Physical Systems.
Chapter 8: Among the additions are sections on aerospace systems, IBM's POWER8 multi-core, Intel's Xeon, Oracle and NEC servers and cloud computing.
Chapter 9: The splitting approach to simulation has been added.