Towards Double-Layer Dynamic Heterogeneous Redundancy Architecture for Reliable Railway Passenger Service System

Researchers have proposed the dynamic heterogeneous redundancy (DHR) architecture, which integrates dynamic, heterogeneous, redundant, and closed-loop feedback elements into the system, to fortify the reliability of the railway passenger service system (RPSS). However, there are at least two weaknesses with the common DHR architectures: (1) they need system nodes with enough computing and storage resources; (2) they have hardly considered the reliability of DHR architecture. To this end, this paper proposes a double-layer DHR (DDHR) architecture to ensure the reliability of RPSS. This architecture introduces a set of algorithms, which are optimized co-computation and ruling weight optimization algorithms for the data processing flow of the DDHR architecture. This set improves the reliability of the DDHR architecture. For the evaluation of the reliability of DDHR architecture, this paper also proposes two metrics: (1) Dynamic available similarity metric. This metric does not rely on the overall similarity of the double-layer redundant executor sets but evaluates the similarity of their performance under the specified interaction paths within a single scheduling cycle. The smaller its similarity, the higher its reliability. (2) Scheduling cycle under dual-layer similarity threshold. This metric evaluates the reliability of the RPSS under actual conditions by setting the schedulable similarity thresholds between the same and different layers of the dual-layer redundant executives in the scheduling process. Finally, analog simulation experiments and prototype system building experiments are carried out, whose numerical experimental results show that the DDHR architecture outperforms the traditional DHR architecture in terms of reliability and performance under different redundancy and dynamically available similarity thresholds, while the algorithmic complexity and multi-tasking concurrency performance are slightly weaker than that of the DHR architecture, but can be applied to the main operations of the RPSS in general.