| 摘要 |
<p>A communication network (300, 400), and (D1-D3, D11-D13, 500) for use therein, comprising a plurality of nodes (N1-N4, N11-N13); a communication medium for communicating between the plurality of nodes; and communication diode arrangement (s) (D1-D3, D11-D13, 500) for controlledly enabling/disabling access of the node (s) to the communication medium by control external to the node (s). The communication diode arrangement (s) can enforce fail-silence in the time domain within a distributed computer system, showing resilience against spatial proximity faults. The communication diode arrangement(s) may be controllable not only by time but also by commands embedded in frames. This allows isolation of a faulty processing node and/or subnets within an embedded distributed real-time communication system, such as for automotive by-wire applications (FlexRay, TTP), under consideration of spatial proximity faults.</p> |
