An Autonomic Connection Scheme for High Service Availability

Daekeun MOON  Jinho PARK  Hagbae KIM  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E93-D   No.3   pp.639-642
Publication Date: 2010/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.639
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Dependable Computing
Keyword: 
process control system,  HMI,  autonomic computing,  high availability,  

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Summary: 
In large-scale industrial plants, the process control system has multiple system servers to provide seamless services to plant operators irrespective of any system server's failure. In this paper, we present an autonomic connection scheme between the system server and the Human-Machine Interface application (HMI) without additional configuration. The proposed scheme is based on the concept of autonomic computing, supporting the fault-tolerant and/or load-balancing features. Finally, the mathematical analysis shows that the proposed scheme can provide high availability of services to users.