A tree-based fault-tolerant multicast algorithm built on top of pipelined circuit switching is presented. For every multicast message, a multicast tree is constructed in a distributed and adaptive fashion. An underlying fault-tolerant routing algorithm is used to tolerate faulty nodes and links without requiring nodes to have global fault information. The multicast algorithm is provably deadloc...

Fault diagnosis on a gear box is a difficult problem due to the non-stationary type of vibration signals it generates. Usually, one method of fault diagnosis can only inspect one corresponding fault category. Vibration based condition monitoring using machine learning methods is gaining momentum. In this paper, rough sets theory, is used to diagnose the fault gears in a gear box. Through the an...

Fault tree analysis is a commonly used technique to assess the systems reliability performance in terms of its components reliability characteristics. More recently, the Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) methodology has been introduced which significantly aids the analysis of the fault tree diagram. The approach has been shown to improve both the efficiency of determining the minimal cut sets of th...

In this paper a new method for mapping fault tree into fuzzy algorithms is introduced. This method is based on the minimal cut sets of a fault tree. This method is characterized by its one-to-one mapping from fault tree (FT) to fuzzy algorithm (FA) and vice versa. So it is consider a canonical method to map FTs into FA. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a risk analysis technique to assess likelihood...

Fault tree technique has been used in industry for safety analysis of safety critical systems for decades. They can be used for analysing the safety of both software and hardware. However, there are a lot of problems in ensuring the internal consistency and validity of fault trees constructed due to the absence of appropriate approach of using fault tree technique. This paper describes a model-...

The paper presents an efficient approach to providing fault-tolerant capability for mobile multicast. In multicast communication, packets can be concurrently sent from a source node to all members by a multicast tree. If failures occur in nodes (links) of the multicast tree, the faulty tree will be partitioned into several disconnected subtrees. For the subtrees without the source node, it cann...

In this paper, we propose a new fault-tolerant model for replication in distributed-file systems. We combine the advantages of the modular redundancy, primary-stand-by, and weighted priority schemes to address the fault-tolerant model. To fulfill the fault-tolerant requirements, we use the ideas of directoryoriented replication and the extended prefix table while incorporating a two-level heap ...