This paper attempts to solidify the technical issues involved in the long-standing debate about the representativeness of fault injection as a tool for measuring the dependability of general-purpose software systems. While direct fault injection seems appropriate for evaluating fault tolerant computers, most current software systems are not designed in a way that makes injection of faults direc...

The continuous scaling of VLSI technology and the aggressive use of low power strategies (such as subthreshold voltage) make it possible to implement standard cryptographic primitives within the very limited circuit and power budget of RFID devices. On the other hand, such cryptographic implementations raise concerns regarding their vulnerability to both active and passive side channel attacks....

Attacks on cryptosystem implementations (e.g. security fault injection, timing analysis and differential power analysis) are amongst the most exciting developments in cryptanalysis of the past decade. Altering the internal state of a cryptosystem or profiling the system’s computational dynamics can be used to gain a huge amount of information. This paper shows how fault injection and timing ana...

Reliability is one of the key problems of an automatic system, especially to the huge, complex, multiple target-based, safety critical and reliability-dependent train control system. A system reliability analysis method based on a dynamic fault tree was proposed to analyse possible fault causes of a whole system in a HLA (High Level Architecture) simulation platform, and according to the princi...

Today, with the development of GPU computing techniques in terms of architectures and hardware and software support, people realized that intensive computing workload could be ported to GPU device. Applications could exploit GPUs’ characteristics for parallel computing and gain a significantly high speedup comparing to CPU architecture. However, failures are still unavoidable. People have alrea...

D ependability evaluation involves the study of failures and errors. The destructive nature of a crash and long error latency make it difficult to identify the causes of failures in the operational environment. It is particularly hard to recreate a failure scenario for a large, complex system. To identify and understand potential failures, we use an experiment-based approach for studying the de...

This paper outlines a method and environment for reflecting the effects of faults in the behavioral software models providing a way for building abstract reusable fault models that are applicable even in early phases of the software development. The main focus is on the application of intelligent data processing methods for extracting important phenomena from the database of fault injection exp...

Many people believe that software fault injection is a complex process that requires investing thousands of dollars in tools to perform Here we look at the most basic requirements for performing fault injection and how for limited software analysis the instrumentation needed to collect the results can be inserted manually thus avoiding the need for advanced tools Getting theoretical ideas into ...

One of the topics of paramount importance in the development of Grid middleware is the impact of faults, since their probability of occurrence in a Grid infrastructure and in large-scale distributed systems is actually very high. In this paper, we explore the versatility of a new tool for fault injection in distributed applications: FAIL-FCI. In particular, we show that not only are we able to ...

The UMLinux [3] environment provides virtual machines on top of which the Linux operating system and off-the-shelf software is installed. Using UMLinux, you can set up systems consisting of several networked virtual machines. A userfriendly GUI guides you through the process of configuring the virtual hardware. Once the hardware is set up, you can proceed to boot the Linux operating system and ...