To meet the reliability requirements of safety-critical embedded systems, fault tolerance techniques such as active redundancy are widely adopted. Fault-tolerant system design using active redundancy is a very challenging task that involves solving two major problems, namely finding the optimal utilization of temporal and/or spatial redundancy and the scheduling of tasks (including replicas) un...

Abstract This paper describes a detailed numerical investigation into the inelastic displacement ratios of non-structural components mounted within multi-storey steel framed buildings and subjected to ground motions with forward-directivity features which are typical near-fault events. The study is carried out using multi-degree-of-freedom models 54 primary different structural characteristics....

This report surveys recent results and approaches from the field of control reconfiguration within a general fault-tolerant control framework. Open problems for future research are identified. Control reconfiguration is embedded within a wider fault-tolerant control context and set apart from other approaches to achieve fault tolerance. It is explained why simpler approaches than control reconf...

Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing on-chip voltage levels have made transient errors a first-order design constraint that can no longer be ignored. Several proposals have provided fault detection and tolerance through redundantly executing a program on a...

In September 1996 Boneh, Demillo, and Lipton from Bellcore announced a new type of cryptanalytic attack which exploits computational errors to find cryptographic keys. Their attack is based on algebraic properties of modular arithmetic, and thus it is applicable only to public key cryptosystems such as RSA, and not to secret key algorithms such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES) . In this pa...

[1] We use data from campaign and continuous GPS sites in southeast Alaska and the neighboring region of Canada to constrain a regional tectonic block model that estimates block angular velocities and derives a self‐consistent set of fault slip rates from the block motions. Present‐day tectonics in southeast Alaska is strongly influenced by the collision of the Yakutat block. Our model predicts...

Earthquakes are dissipation of energy throughout elastic waves. Canonically is the elastic energy accumulated during the interseismic period. However, in crustal extensional settings, gravity is the main energy source for hangingwall fault collapsing. Gravitational potential is about 100 times larger than the observed magnitude, far more than enough to explain the earthquake. Therefore, normal ...

Experimental evaluation is an important way to assess distributed systems, and fault injection is the dominant technique in this area for the evaluation of a system’s dependability. For distributed systems, network failure is an important fault model. Physical network failures often have far-reaching effects, giving rise to multiple correlated failures as seen by higher-level protocols. This th...

We propose a new hybrid fault model for clock synchronization and single-round (approximate) agreement in synchronous distributed systems1, which accurately captures both node and link faults. Unlike conventional “global” fault models, which rest upon the total number of faulty nodes in the system, it solely relies upon the number of faults in any two non-faulty nodes’ “perceptions” —conveyed b...

In this paper we discuss the use of information modeling to develop information exchange standards and metrics for test and diagnostics. For example, fault information is being transferred from one diagnostic reasoner to another. How many attributes does a fault have? One, three, fifteen? How do these attributes relate to the fault, to diagnosis, and tests? If both reasoners do not understand t...