The controller area network (CAN) protocol was originally introduced for automotive
applications but is now also widely used in process control and many other industrial areas …

Despite the significant advantages of the Controller Area Network (CAN) there is an
extended belief that CAN is not suitable for critical applications, mainly because of several …

Car manufacturers, for example, GM, DaimlerChrysler, commonly referred to as original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs), are currently adopting flexible car architectures in their …

Standard fieldbuses, such as the controller area network (CAN), are today a cost-effective
solution for distributed computer control systems. However, the standard CAN protocol …

To increase their dependability, distributed control systems (DCSs) need to agree in real
time about which hosts have crashed, ie, they need a real-time membership service. In this …

We present the RedCAN concept to achieve fault tolerance against node and link failures in
a CAN-bus system by means of configurable switches. The basic idea in RedCAN is to …

An incremental message and task scheduling approach based on a time driven message
schedule and priority driven task schedule is proposed. The hierarchical message and task …

Software is a major source of reliability degradation in dependable systems. One of the
classical remedies is to provide software fault tolerance by using N-Version Programming …

Continuity of service and bounded and known message delivery latency, are reliability
requirements of a number of real-time applications, such as those served by standard …

A Controller Area Network (CAN) bus facilitates real time data/command transfer over small
distances. It is frequently used in automotive, off-road, and industrial environments with …