UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 655: Fault Tolerant Computing

Description: A course on the theory and practice of fault tolerant systems.

• The topics to be covered include:

  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Hardware fault tolerance.
  • 3. Information redundancy.
  • 4. Fault-tolerant Networks.
  • 5. Software fault-tolerance.
  • 6. Checkpointing.
  • 7. Case studies.
  • 8. Defect tolerance in VLSI circuits.
  • 9. Fault detection in cryptographic systems.
  
  
• Homework Assignments
• Lecture notes (pdf format):
  • Part 1, Part 2
  • Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
  • Part 6, Part 7
  • Part 8, Part 9
  • Part 10, Part 11
  • Part 12, Part 13
  • Part 14, Part 15
  • Part 16, Part 17
  • Part 18 Part 21
  • Part 19, Part 20,
• Instructor: Prof. Israel Koren, Email: koren 'at' ecs.umass.edu
• Prerequisites: Basic courses in Digital Design, Hardware Organization/Computer Architecture, and Probability.
• Course References.
• Recommended book: I. Koren and C. M. Krishna, Fault-Tolerant Systems, Morgan-Kaufman, 2007.
• Recommended reading:
  • M.L. Shooman, Reliability of Computer Systems and Networks: Fault Tolerance, Analysis, and Design, Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-29342-3.
  • D.P. Siewiorek and R.S. Swarz, Reliable Computer Systems: Design and Evaluation, A.K. Peters, 1998.
  • D.K. Pradhan (ed.), Fault Tolerant Computer System Design, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
  • B.W. Johnson, Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Digital Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
• Course web page: All details regarding the course will be available at:
  http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/ece655.
• Grading:
  • Homework - 15%
  • Mid-term - 35%
  • Project or Seminar or take-home final exam - 50%
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