CSVTU BE VII Semester IT Fault Tolerant Systems Syllabus
CSVTU BE VII Semester IT Fault Tolerant Systems Syllabus
Systems Syllabus
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UNIT I – INTRODUCTION
dependability.
Reliability, availability, safety, Impairments: faults, errors and failures, Means: fault
Common measures: failures rate, mean time to failure, mean time to repair, etc. Reliability
,Information redundancy
UNIT V- CODES
Codes: linear, Hamming, cyclic, unordered, arithmetic, etc. ,Encoding and decoding techniques
,Applications , Time redundancy
Software fault tolerance, Specific features, Software fault tolerance techniques: N-version
Text Books
1 Anderson, T., and P.A. Lee, Fault-Tolerant Principles and Practices, Prentice-Hall
2 Hwang, K., and F.A. Briggs, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, McGraw-Hill.
Jalote, P.
Reference Book
2. Leveson, Nancy G., Safeware, system safety and computers, Addison Wesely.
4. Pradhan, Dhiraj K., Fault-Tolerant Computer System Design, ISBN 0-13-057887-8, Prentice-Hall
PTR
Ad hoc & Sensor Networks
Course Objectives:
Course Outcomes:
Syllabus:
Course Outcomes:
UNIT II: Data Transmission: Broadcast storm problem, Broadcasting, Multicasting and
Geocasting
Course Outcomes:
UNIT III: TCP over Ad Hoc: TCP protocol overview, TCP and MANETs, and Solutions for TCP
over Ad hoc
Course Outcomes:
UNIT IV: Basics of Wireless Sensors and Applications: Applications, Classification of sensor
networks, Architecture of sensor networks, Physical layer, MAC layer, Link layer
Course Outcomes:
UNIT V: Data Retrieval in Sensor Networks: Routing layer, Transport layer, High-level
application layer support, Adapting to the inherent dynamic nature of WSNs, and Sensor
Networks and mobile robots.
Course Outcomes:
UNIT VI: Security: Security in ad hoc networks, Key management, Secure routing, Cooperation
in MANETs, and Intrusion detection systems. Sensor Network Platforms and Tools: Sensor
Network Hardware, Berkeley motes, Sensor Network Programming Challenges, Node-Level
Software Platforms, TinyOS, NS-2 and TOSSIM.
Course Outcomes:
Textbooks:
1. Ad hoc and Sensor Networks - Theory and Applications, by Carlos Cordeiro and Dharma P.
Agrawal, World Scientific Publications, March 2006, ISBN 981-256-681-3.
References:
1. C.Siva Ram Murthy and B.S.Manoj, ―Ad Hoc Wireless Networks – Architectures and
Protocols, Pearson Education, 2006.
2. Holger Karl, Andreas Willing, ―Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor
Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
MAC Protocols: design issues, goals and classification. Contention based protocols- with
reservation, scheduling algorithms, protocols using directional antennas. IEEE
standards: 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.15. HIPERLAN.
Routing Protocols: Design issues, goals and classification. Proactive Vs reactive routing,
Unicast routing algorithms, Multicast routing algorithms, hybrid routing algorithm, Energy
aware routing algorithm, Hierarchical Routing, QoS aware routing.