Instructor

Office: SENG 213C
Phone: (508) 999-8883
Fax: (508) 999-8489
Email: lxing@umassd.edu  

URL: https://xing.sites.umassd.edu/

Office hours: Mon./Wed. 2:00pm – 3:00pm (In-person)                                                          Tue. 1:00pm – 3:00pm (Virtual)

Course Description

This course will provide an introduction to the techniques for designing and analyzing fault-tolerant and dependable computer-based systems. Topics addressed include: fault, error, and failure cause-and-effect relationships; fault avoidance / tolerance techniques; time-to-failure models and distributions; reliability modeling and evaluation techniques, including fault trees, cut-sets, reliability block diagrams, binary decision diagrams, and Markov models. In addition, availability modeling, safety modeling, and trade-off analysis are presented. The course includes a research project and investigation of current topics for ECE544 students. The course can be used to meet the MS Computer Engineering Math requirement.