Opening up New Fail-safe Layers in Distributed Vehicle Computer Systems

Johannes Büttner, Markus Kucera, Thomas Waas

2018

Abstract

The automotive industry currently faces several challenges, including a growing complexity in system architecture. At the same time, the task load as well as the needs for performance increase. To address this problem, the A3Fa research project evaluates scalable distributed concepts for future vehicle system architectures. These can be seen as comparable to cluster-computing systems, which are applied in high-performance or high-availability use-cases. Methods used in such scenarios will also be important features in future vehicle architectures such as horizontal application scalability, application load balancing and reallocation, as well as functionality upgrades triggered by the user. This paper focuses on concepts and methods for the reliability of applications and hardware in future in-vehicle distributed system architectures. It is argued that future automotive computing systems will evolve towards enterprise IT systems similar to today’s data centers. Furthermore, it is stated these vehicle systems can benefit greatly from IT systems. In particular, the safety against failure of functions and hardware in such systems is discussed. For this purpose, various of such mechanisms used in information technology are investigated. A layer-based classification is proposed, representing the different fail-safe levels.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Büttner J., Kucera M. and Waas T. (2018). Opening up New Fail-safe Layers in Distributed Vehicle Computer Systems.In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-758-322-3, pages 98-102. DOI: 10.5220/0006903600980102

in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs18,
author={Johannes Büttner and Markus Kucera and Thomas Waas},
title={Opening up New Fail-safe Layers in Distributed Vehicle Computer Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2018},
pages={98-102},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006903600980102},
isbn={978-989-758-322-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - Opening up New Fail-safe Layers in Distributed Vehicle Computer Systems
SN - 978-989-758-322-3
AU - Büttner J.
AU - Kucera M.
AU - Waas T.
PY - 2018
SP - 98
EP - 102
DO - 10.5220/0006903600980102