Internal Turn-Turn faults (TTF) are the most common failures in power transformers, which could seriously reduce their life expectancy. Although common protection schemes such as current-baseddifferential protection are able to detect some of the internal faults, some other minor ones (such as TTFs andshort circuit near the neutral point) cannot be detected by such schemes. Likewise, these rela...

This paper deals with diagnostic methods of the internal faults in power transformers. The diagnostic process uses some of the current diagnosis methods (e.g. oil test, dissolved gases analysis (DGA), partial discharge (PD), etc.) to determine the condition of the transformer. In this process, the most frequent diagnostic methods were listed and applied practically to be compared. A conventiona...

Rabbit is a high speed scalable stream cipher with 128-bit key and a 64-bit initialization vector. It has passed all three stages of the ECRYPT stream cipher project and is a member of eSTREAM software portfolio. In this paper, we present a practical fault analysis attack on Rabbit. The fault model in which we analyze the cipher is the one in which the attacker is assumed to be able to fault a ...

This paper presents a new approach for simulating the internal faults of synchronous machines using distributed computing and Large Change Sensitivity (LCS) analysis. LCS analysis caters for a parallel solution of 3-phase model of a faulted machine within the symmetrical componentbased model of interconnected network. The proposed method considers dynamic behavior of the faulty machine and conn...

In this paper we present the specification backpropagation technique which enables one to derive the constraint of an internal functional block with respect to a given DC specification for an analog/mixed-signal system. Based on this technique, we implement an efficient fault simulator which reduces the required efforts by (1) removing undetectable faults from the fault list, and (2) performing...

Software almost inevitably contains defects. Do everything possible to reduce the fault rate; Use faulttolerance techniques to deal with software faults. Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to perform its function correctly even in the presence of internal faults. Most of the ordinary systems lack fault tolerant software fix. This paper surveys various software Fault Tolerance techniques...

A complete fault analysis scheme for long transmission line represented with distributed parameters is proposed in this paper. The synchronized samples from both ends of the transmission line are the data sources for this scheme. The paper derives a specific feature which equals to zero for normal situation and external faults, and is close to fault current during the internal faults. This feat...

In this paper the design and formal veri cation of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system for digital ight control applications, are presented. The RCP utilizes NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to ush the e ects of transient faults. The system is formally speci ed and veri ed using the Ehdm veri cation system. A major goal of thi...

In this paper we propose an innovative way of dealing with the design of fault tolerant control systems. We show how the nonlinear output regulation theory can be successfully adopted in order to design a regulator able to offset the effect of all the possible faults which can occur and, so doing, also to detect and isolate the occurred fault. The regulator is designed by embedding the (possibl...