Paper Info
Title
PRASE: An Approach for Program Reliability Analysis with Soft Errors
Abstract
Soft errors are emerging as a new challenge in computer applications. Current studies about soft errors mainly focus on the circuit and architecture level. Few works discuss the impact of soft errors on programs. This paper presents a novel approach named PRASE, which can analyze the reliability of a program with the effect of soft errors. Based on the simple probability theory and the corresponding assembly code of a program, we propose two models for analyzing the probabilities about error generation and error propagation. The analytical performance is increased significantly with the help of basic block analysis. The program’s reliability is determined according to its actual execution paths. We propose a factor named PVF (Program Vulnerability Factor), which represents the characteristic of program’s vulnerability in the presence of soft errors. The experimental results show that the reliability of a program has a connection with its structure. Comparing with the traditional fault injection techniques, PRASE has the advantage of faster speed and lower price with more general results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/PRDC.2008.30
PRDC
Keywords
DocType
Volume
reliability,probability,soft error,error propagation,mathematical model,software fault tolerance,assembly,probability theory,reliability analysis,registers
Conference
null
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
null
7
0.53
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianjun Xu1172.54
Rui Shen2143.07
Qingping Tan313523.97