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Multi-level Fault Tolerance Approach for IoT Systems

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The presence of faults is inevitable in the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, fault Tolerance in IoT systems is a challenge to overcome due to their size, complexity, dynamicity, and level of heterogeneity, especially error detection and error recovery and continued service. Thus, it is impractical to consider a unified fault tolerance technique for an entire system. The purpose of this study is to propose a multi-level fault tolerance approach granting interconnection among IoT system levels allowing information exchange and collaboration in order to attain the dependability property. Therefore, we define an event-driven framework called FaTEMa (Fault Tolerance Event Manager), creating a dedicated fault-related communication channel to propagate events among system levels. The implemented framework acted to assist error detection and continued service. Also, it offers extension points to support heterogeneous communication protocols and evolves to new capabilities. Our empirical results show that the FaTEMa introduction has improved error detection and error resolution time, consequently improving system availability. In addition, the use of FaTEMa demonstrates a reliability improvement and a reduction in the number of failures produced.

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    Mário Melo

  2. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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Melo, M., Aquino, G. (2021). Multi-level Fault Tolerance Approach for IoT Systems. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12957. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87013-3_32

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