A New Approach to Selectively Implement Control Flow Error Detection Techniques

Many software-implemented control flow error detection techniques have been proposed over the years. In an effort to reduce their overhead, recent research has focused on selective approaches. However, correctly applying these approaches can be difficult. This paper aims to address this concern and proposes a new approach. Our new approach is easier to implement and is applicable on any existing control flow error detection technique. To prove its validity, we apply our new approach to the Random Additive Control Flow Error Detection technique and perform fault injection experiments. The results show that the selective implementation has approximately the same error detection ratio with a decrease in execution time overhead.status: Published onlin