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Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Networking with VxWorks: Architecture, Design, High-Availability Communication, and Production Implementation in C with a Com
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 444
Weight: 2.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Engineer fault-tolerant, high-availability real-time networks that never stop communicating-even when hardware, links, or nodes fail.
Move beyond theory with production-grade VxWorks architecture, PowerPC MVME5500 implementation, industrial networking techniques, and complete C-based design strategies used in mission-critical embedded systems.
Modern aerospace, defense, industrial automation, transportation, energy, and scientific systems demand deterministic communication, continuous availability, and rapid fault recovery. Designing such systems requires far more than networking fundamentals-it demands a deep understanding of real-time operating systems, redundancy architectures, Ethernet protocols, hardware integration, and production-quality software engineering.
Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Networking with VxWorks is a comprehensive engineering reference that guides experienced professionals, embedded software engineers, system architects, networking specialists, and advanced students through the complete lifecycle of designing, implementing, optimizing, validating, and deploying high-availability dual redundant networking solutions.
Unlike books that focus only on networking concepts or operating systems, this book integrates theory with practical implementation, demonstrating how deterministic communication systems are built on VxWorks, PowerPC MVME5500, VMEbus, Gigabit Ethernet, and the C programming language.
Inside this book, you will learn how to:
Design deterministic real-time communication architectures for mission-critical applications
Build high-availability dual redundant Ethernet networks
Develop heartbeat monitoring, failover, failback, and redundancy management algorithms
Design fault-tolerant communication frameworks with packet replication and duplicate detection
Understand PowerPC processor architecture, memory management, interrupt handling, DMA, and cache optimization
Master VxWorks kernel internals, task scheduling, BSP development, networking stack architecture, and END device drivers
Optimize Ethernet performance, TCP/IP stack configuration, latency, jitter, and throughput
Implement production-quality networking software using modular, scalable C architecture
Validate embedded networking solutions through unit testing, integration testing, fault injection, stress testing, and performance benchmarking
Apply engineering best practices to aerospace, defense, railway, industrial automation, and scientific control systems
The book includes extensive coverage of:- Real-time networking fundamentals
- High-availability system design
- Fault tolerance and redundancy architectures
- Active-Active and Active-Standby networking
- Heartbeat protocol engineering
- Failover and failback mechanisms
- Ethernet and Industrial Ethernet
- TCP/IP internals in VxWorks
- PowerPC MVME5500 architecture
- VMEbus communication
- BSP development
- Device driver architecture
- Performance optimization
- Industrial case studies
- Production-ready software architecture
- Complete engineering implementation in C
Whether you are developing safety-critical embedded systems, upgrading legacy VME platforms, architecting industrial communication networks, or seeking to master professional VxWorks networking development, this book provides the practical knowledge, implementation techniques, and engineering insights required to build reliable, deterministic, and fault-tolerant real-time communication systems.
If your goal is to design embedded networks that deliver deterministic performance, continuous availability, and production-grade reliability, this book belongs on your engineering desk.
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