ECE 60872/CS 590-001 Lecture Summaries

This page will give a brief summary of what topics were covered in each lecture. You should always try to attend lecture, but I recognize that this is not always possible. Therefore this information is provided for reference for personal study.

Fall 2017: Story So Far

• August 13
  • Class syllabus and FAQ posted
• August 17
  • Web site updated
• August 21
  • Introduction
  • ALA on bug finding
  • Case studies of reliability outages
• August 23
  • No lecture
• August 25
  • Terminology
  • System level view
• August 28
  • Fault timeline
  • Calculations of metrics
• August 30 [New Topic: Discrete distributions]
  • Discrete probability distributions
  • Series-parallel systems
• Sep 1
  • Correlated failures
  • Reliability block diagram
• Sep 4
  • No class - Labor Day
• Sep 6
  • Failure analysis
  • k-out-of-n systems
• Sep 8
  • No class
• Sep 11 [New Topic: Continuous distributions]
  • Continuous distributions basic concepts
• Sep 13
  • Failure rate, MTTF derivations
  • Some important continuous distributions
• Sep 15
  • continuous distributions and applications
• Sep 18
  • Failure data analysis practical example
• Sep 20 [New Topic: Hardware reliability]
  • Static, dynamic redundancy
  • Non-series-parallel systems
• Sep 22
  • Hybrid redundancy
  • Cascaded systems
• Sep 25
  • Error control coding
• Sep 27 [New Topic: Software reliability]
  • Dependability in the news: Ransomware
  • Software fault models, software testing
• Sep 29
  • Temporal redundancy
  • Multi-version software
• Oct 2
  • Reliability analysis of multi-version software
• Oct 4 (No in-class lecture, video lecture instead)
  • Process pairs approach to software fault tolerance
• Oct 6 (No in-class lecture, video lecture instead)
  • Robust data structures
• Oct 9
  • October break
• Oct 11 [New Topic: Distributed protocols]
  • Motivation
  • Different kinds of failures
• Oct 13
  • Reliable broadcast protocols
• Oct 16
  • FIFO broadcast protocols
• Oct 17
  • Help session
• Oct 18
  • Exam in class
• Oct 20
  • Class off to compensate for extra class on Oct 17
• Oct 23
  • SAN modeling (covered by Dr. Paul Wood)
• Oct 25
  • SAN modeling (covered by Dr. Paul Wood)
• Oct 27
  • Totally ordered broadcast protocols
• Oct 31
  • Agreement protocols and variants
• Nov 1
  • Byzantine agreement protocol
• Nov 3
  • New topic: Markov chain modeling
• Nov 6
  • Markov chain modelingL n-step transitions
• Nov 8 [New topic: Recovery]
  • Basic concepts
  • Forward error recovery
• Nov 10
  • Checkpointing-based recovery
  • Synchronous algorithm
• Nov 13:
  • Dependability in the news: Internet down (or how easy it is to take down DNS)
• Nov 15:
  • Checkpointing-based recovery: Asynchronous algorithm
• Nov 17: No class
• Nov 20: [Nw topic: Validation]
  • Validation in three phases
  • Metrics to evaluate

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