Abstract
Publish/subscribe services are being increasingly used in innovative critical systems to federate their internal components. Industrial practitioners require a rigorous methodology for assessing the behaviour of the adopted service in case of fault occurrences both for satisfying demands of safety standards but also for selecting the best product to use. In this paper, we propose to use fault injection for this purpose and to present the description of the fault model to be used, the analysis of failure modes and the dependability measures for describing middleware behaviour in case of fault manifestations and the implementation of a fault injection tool. We also present the results of a fault injection campaign on three publish/subscribe service implementations, representative of the different technologies currently used in several industrial cases.
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April 6, 2009 Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, today announced that Volkswagen AG, Electronics and Vehicle Research department, is using RTI’s real-time messaging middleware across different projects to integrate advanced driver assistance systems into the car.
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Esposito, C. (2013). Evaluating Fault-Tolerance of Publish/Subscribe Services. In: Cotroneo, D. (eds) Innovative Technologies for Dependable OTS-Based Critical Systems. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2772-5_9
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