Roberto Natella Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy ABSTRACT This paper proposes an approach to software faults diagnosis in complex fault tolerant systems, encompassing the phases of error detection, fault location, and system recovery. Errors are detected in the first phase, exploiting the operating system support. Faults are identified during the location phase, adopting o...

We propose a two-phase methodology for quantifying the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based Internet services. In the first phase, evaluators use a fault-injection infrastructure to measure the impact of faults on the server’s performance. In the second phase, evaluators use an analytical model to combine an expected fault load with measurements from the first phase to a...

The paper introduces the Cama (Context-Aware M obile Agents) framework intended for developing large-scale mobile applications using the agent paradigm. Cama provides a powerful set of abstractions, a supporting middleware and an adaptation layer allowing developers to address the main characteristics of the mobile applications: openness, asynchronous and anonymous communication, fault toleranc...

The paper introduces the Cama (Context-Aware M obile Agents) framework intended for developing large-scale mobile applications using the agent paradigm. Cama provides a powerful set of abstractions, a supporting middleware and an adaptation layer allowing developers to address the main characteristics of the mobile applications: openness, asynchronous and anonymous communication, fault toleranc...

ro determine whether an integrated digital circuit is working properly, one may apply to the circuit a set of· well-devised test sequences and compare the resultant outputs with the corresponding correct outputs. Any discrepancies indicate the presence of a fault. The main task here is to find a set of test sequences which can detect the presence of any prescribed fault in the circuit. This tes...

Abstract eVTOLs are receiving a lot of attention as potential solution to urban air mobility challenges. Many configurations multirotors, which open loop unstable, therefore very susceptible actuator failures. Due their usually short mission duration (20-30 min), fault-tolerance the propulsion system is greater importance then reliability. Thus, novel approaches enhance this capability required...

A safety-critical real-time computer system must provide its services with a dependability that is much better than the dependability of any one of its constituent components. This challenging goal can only be achieved by the provision of fault tolerance. The design of any faulttolerant system proceeds in four distinct phases. In the first phase the fault hypothesis is shaped, i.e. assumptions ...

This paper presents a novel approach to fault detection, faulty phase(s) identification, faulty section estimation, and fault location determination for a multi-ended transmission line in Egypt based on artificial neural networks. In order to perform this approach, the protection task is subdivided into different neural network modules for fault detection, fault classification as well as fault ...

Safe operation of electric motor drives is of prime research interest in various industrial applications. This paper presents a new fault diagnosis system for open circuit switch faults in three phases Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) drive of the permanent magnet Brushless DC (BLDC) motors. The proposed fault diagnosis system is capable of detecting as well as identifying the faulty switch in the...