WP4 - Reliability
The objective of this work package is to reinforce reliability analysis methods and tools to define the reliability of the whole system. In particular the following issues will be considered:
- side effects of fault and error propagations i.e. failure correlations or fault-masking mechanisms;
- dependencies towards the reliability and isolation capabilities of the run-time;
- complex system run-time reconfiguration capabilities while dealing with permanent component failures.
Analysis algorithms will be developed to calculate the overall system failure model and reliability with respect to real-time capabilities. In this context special emphasis will be put on mixed-criticality design. The need for mixed-criticality design emerges due to the integration of applications with different criticality levels on the same platform and requires new ways of thinking to be realized in a cost- and energy-efficient way.
