Framework for repl ica select ion in fault-tolerant distributed systems

This paper describes my term project, which I developed in the course CS 589 Software Engineering for Embedded Systems. The term project should be a design and an implementation of a novel application or development tool that exploits one or more existing approaches to software engineering in the context of embedded systems, demonstrates a novel idea in this domain, or overcomes a known significant challenge posed by embedded systems. In my project I examined how to select replica components in fault-tolerant systems to increase the overall reliability of the system considering the additional costs of the deployed replica components. As a result, I developed a framework for different replica selection algorithms and evaluated five selections strategies for this framework.