scholarly journals Representing Tactics for Fault Recovery: A Reconfigurable, Modular, and Hierarchical Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Fernando J. Barros

We show the advantages of modular and hierarchical design in obtaining fault-tolerant software. Modularity enables the identification of faulty software units simplifying key operations, like software removal and replacement. We describe three approaches to repair faulty software based on replication, namely, Passive Replication, N-Version Replication, and Active Replication, based on modular components. We show that the key construct to represent these tactics is the ability to makead hocchanges in software topologies. We consider hierarchical mobility as a useful operation to introduce new software units for replacing faulty ones. For illustration purposes, we useconnecton, a hierarchical, modular, and self-modifying software specification formalism, and its implementation in theDesmosframework.

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Wang ◽  
Jianguo Yu ◽  
Shangjing Lin

Purpose To solve the above problems and ensure the stability of the ad hoc network node topology in the process of wireless signal transmission, this paper aims to design a robust adaptive sliding film fault-tolerant controller under the nonlinear distortion of signal transmission in an amorphous flat air-to-ground wireless ad hoc network system. Design/methodology/approach This paper designs a robust adaptive sliding film fault-tolerant controller under the nonlinear distortion of signal transmission in an amorphous flat air-to-ground wireless ad hoc network system. Findings The simulation results show that the amorphous flat wireless self-organizing network system has good nonlinear distortion fault-tolerant correction ability under the feedback control of the designed controller, and the system has the asymptotically stable convergence ability; the test results show: the node topology of the self-organizing network structural stability is significantly improved, which provides a foundation for the subsequent realization of long-distance transmission of ad hoc network nodes. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalizability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further. Originality/value The controller can extract the fault information caused by nonlinear distortion in the wireless signal transmission process, and at the same time, its feedback matrix K can gradually converge the generated wireless signal error to zero, to realize the stable transmission of the wireless signal.


Author(s):  
SHAMBHU J. UPADHYAYA ◽  
I-SHYAN HWANG

This paper presents a novel technique for the enhancement of operational reliability of processor arrays by a multi-level fault-tolerant design approach. The key idea of the design is based on the well known hierarchical design paradigm. The proposed fault-tolerant architecture uses a flexible reconfiguration of redundant nodes, thereby offering a better spare utilization than existing two-level redundancy schemes. A variable number of spares is provided at each level of redundancy which enables a flexible reconfiguration as well as area efficient layouts and better spare utilization. The spare nodes at each level can replace any of the failed primary nodes, not only at the same level but also those at the lower levels. The architecture can be adopted to increase the system reliability in Multi Chip Modules (MCMs). The main contributions of our work are the higher degree of fault tolerance, higher overall reliability, flexibility, and a better spare utilization.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Wang ◽  
Jianguo Yu ◽  
Shangjing Lin ◽  
Junguo Dong ◽  
Zheng Yu

Purpose The paper takes the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system as the research object, this paper aims to propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the system to distribute to solve the problem of control and communication failure at the same time. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the authors propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system. Findings The results show that the integrated system has good robustness and fault tolerance performance indicators for flight control and wireless signal transmission when confronted with external disturbances, internal actuator failures and wireless network associated failures and the flight control curve of the quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is generally smooth and stable, even if it encounters external disturbances and actuator failures, its fault tolerance performance is very good. Then in the range of 400–800 m wireless communication distance, the success rate of wireless signal loop transmission is stable at 80%–100% and the performance is at least relatively improved by 158.823%. Originality/value This paper takes the air-ground integrated wireless ad hoc network-integrated system as the research object, based on the robust fault-tolerant control algorithm, the authors propose a distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control algorithm suitable for the system and through the Riccati equation and linear matrix inequation method, the designed distributed robust H∞ adaptive fault-tolerant controller further optimizes the fault suppression factor γ, so as to break through the limitation of only one Lyapunov matrix for different fault modes to distribute to solve the problem of control and communication failure at the same time.


Author(s):  
Yu Wang

Fault tolerance is one of the premier system design desiderata in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. It is crucial to have a certain level of fault tolerance in most of ad hoc and sensor applications, especially for those used in surveillance, security, and disaster relief. In addition, several network security schemes require the underlying topology provide fault tolerance. In this chapter, we will review various fault tolerant techniques used in topology design for ad hoc and sensor networks, including those for power control, topology control, and sensor coverage.


2009 ◽  
pp. 135-171
Author(s):  
Soe-Tsyr Yuan ◽  
Fang-Yu Chen

Peer-to-Peer applications harness sharing between free resources (storage, contents, services, human presence, etc.). Most existing wireless P2P applications concern merely the sharing of a variety of contents. For magnifying the sharing extent for wireless service provision in the vicinity (i.e., the wireless P2P environments), this chapter presents a novel approach (briefly named UbiSrvInt) that is an attempt to enable a pure P2P solution that is context aware and fault tolerant for ad-hoc wireless service provision. This approach empowers an autonomous peer to propel distributed problem solving (e.g., in the travel domain) through service sharing and execution in an intelligent P2P way. This approach of ad-hoc wireless service provision is not only highly robust to failure (based on a specific clustering analysis of failure correlation among peers) but also capable of inferring a user’s service needs (through a BDI reasoning mechanism utilizing the surrounding context) in ad-hoc wireless environments. The authors have implemented UbiSrvInt into a system platform with P-JXTA that shows good performance results on fault tolerance and context awareness.


Author(s):  
Zamree Che-aron ◽  
Aisha Hassan Abdalla ◽  
Khaizuran Abdullah ◽  
Wan Haslina Hassan ◽  
Md. Arafatur Rahman

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