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Research Report CS-RR-165

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Zhiming Liu and M. Joseph, Transformation of Programs for Fault-tolerance (October 1, 1990).

Abstract

It has been usual to consider that the steps of program refinement start with a program specification and end with the production of the text of an executable program. But for fault-tolerance, the program must be capable of taking account of the failure modes of the particular architecture on which it is to be executed. In this paper we shall describe how a program constructed for a fault-free system can be transformed into a fault-tolerant program for execution on a system which is susceptible to failures. We assume that the interference by a faulty environment F on the execution of a program P can be described as a fault-transformation F which transforms P into a program F(P) = P + F. A recovery transformation R transforms P into a program R(P) = P[]R by adding a set of recovery actions R, called a recovery program. If the system is fail stop and faults do not affect recovery actions, we have F(R(P)) = F(P)[]R = (P + F)[]R We illustrate this approach to fault-tolerant programming by considering the problem of designing a protocol that guarantees reliable communication from a sender to a receiver in spite of faults in the communication channel between them.

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Zhiming Liu and M. Joseph, "Transformation of Programs for Fault-tolerance", Formal Aspects of Computing 4(5), pp. 442-469 (1992)

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