Fault-Tolerance Analysis of Mixed CAN/Switched Ethernet Architecture
Résumé
CAN is a well known fieldbus standard used in safety critical applications
of embedded systems. However, steadily increasing amount of exchanged
information in such systems has led to the use of Switched Ethernet like solutions.
Mixed CAN/Switched Ethernet architectures allow to bypass CAN limitations
while preserving the widely used CAN technology. In order to use this kind
of architecture in safety critical applications a complete fault tolerance analysis
is mandatory. In this paper, we use a simulation-based fault-injection technique
to analyse the impact of different types of errors on the percentage of application
frames missing their deadlines. Results show that different types of errors don't
have the same impact on different types of traffic. Moreover, it is shown that
the re-emission of corrupted frames can have a negative impact on the system's
global performance.