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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A tool for automatic formal analysis of fault tolerance

Nilsson, Markus January 2005 (has links)
The use of computer-based systems is rapidly increasing and such systems can now be found in a wide range of applications, including safety-critical applications such as cars and aircrafts. To make the development of such systems more efficient, there is a need for tools for automatic safety analysis, such as analysis of fault tolerance. In this thesis, a tool for automatic formal analysis of fault tolerance was developed. The tool is built on top of the existing development environment for the synchronous language Esterel, and provides an output that can be visualised in the Item toolkit for fault tree analysis (FTA). The development of the tool demonstrates how fault tolerance analysis based on formal verification can be automated. The generated output from the fault tolerance analysis can be represented as a fault tree that is familiar to engineers from the traditional FTA analysis. The work also demonstrates that interesting attributes of the relationship between a critical fault combination and the input signals can be generated automatically. Two case studies were used to test and demonstrate the functionality of the developed tool. A fault tolerance analysis was performed on a hydraulic leakage detection system, which is a real industrial system, but also on a synthetic system, which was modeled for this purpose.
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Balancing Dependability Quality Attributes for Increased Embedded Systems Dependability

Al-Daajeh, Saleh January 2009 (has links)
Embedded systems are used in many critical applications where a failure can have serious consequences. Therefore, achieving a high level of dependability is an ultimate goal. However, in order to achieve this goal we are in need of understanding the interrelationships between the different dependability quality attributes and other embedded systems’ quality attributes. This research study provides indicators of the relationship between the dependability quality attributes and other quality attributes for embedded systems by identifying the impact of architectural tactics as the candidate solutions to construct dependable embedded systems.
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Aplikace technik k zajištění bezpečnosti a spolehlivosti soustav kosmických prostředků / Application of Safety and Reliability Assurance Techniques in Spacecraft Systems

Horčička, Marek January 2020 (has links)
Thesis is focused on safety and reliability of space products. It describes assessment methods and applies them on small commercial satellite.
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Persistent Fault-Tolerant Storage at the Fog Layer

Bakhshi Valojerdi, Zeinab January 2021 (has links)
Clouds are powerful computer centers that provide computing and storage facilities that can be remotely accessed. The flexibility and cost-efficiency offered by clouds have made them very popular for business and web applications. The use of clouds is now being extended to safety-critical applications such as factories. However, cloud services do not provide time predictability which creates a hassle for such time-sensitive applications. Moreover, delays in the data communication between clouds and the devices the clouds control are unpredictable. Therefore, to increase predictability an intermediate layer between devices and the cloud is introduced. This layer, the Fog layer, aims to provide computational resources closer to the edge of the network. However, the fog computing paradigm relies on resource-constrained nodes, creating new potential challenges in resource management, scalability, and reliability. Solutions such as lightweight virtualization technologies can be leveraged for solving the dichotomy between performance and reliability in fog computing. In this context, container-based virtualization is a key technology providing lightweight virtualization for cloud computing that can be applied in fog computing as well. Such container-based technologies provide fault tolerance mechanisms that improve the reliability and availability of application execution.  By the study of a robotic use-case, we have realized that persistent data storage for stateful applications at the fog layer is particularly important. In addition, we identified the need to enhance the current container orchestration solution to fit fog applications executing in container-based architectures. In this thesis, we identify open challenges in achieving dependable fog platforms. Among these, we focus particularly on scalable, lightweight virtualization, auto-recovery, and re-integration solutions after failures in fog applications and nodes. We implement a testbed to deploy our use-case on a container-based fog platform and investigate the fulfillment of key dependability requirements. We enhance the architecture and identify the lack of persistent storage for stateful applications as an important impediment for the execution of control applications. We propose a solution for persistent fault-tolerant storage at the fog layer, which dissociates storage from applications to reduce application load and separates the concern of distributed storage. Our solution includes a replicated data structure supported by a consensus protocol that ensures distributed data consistency and fault tolerance in case of node failures. Finally, we use the UPPAAL verification tool to model and verify the fault tolerance and consistency of our solution.
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Modelling Safety of Autonomous Driving with Semi-Markov Processes

Kvanta, Hugo January 2021 (has links)
With the advent of autonomous vehicles, the issue of safety-evaluationhas become key. ISO26262 recommends using Markov chains. However, in their most common form, Markov chains lack the flexibility required to model non- exponential probability distributions and systems displaying parallelism. In these cases, generalized semi-Markov processes arebetter suited. Though, these are significantly more taxing to analyze mathematically.  This thesis instead explores the option of simulating these systemsdirectly via MATLAB’s Simulink and Stateflow. An example system, here called CASE, currently under study by Scania was used as an example. The results showed that direct simulation is indeed possible, but the computational times are significantly greater than those from standard MATLAB-functions. The method should therefore be employed on parallel systems when results with a high level of fidelity are needed, and alternative methods are not available.
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Funkční analýza rizik (FHA) 4-místného letounu pro osobní dopravu / Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) of 4-seat aircraft

Jakl, Jan January 2010 (has links)
At the beginning this master's thesis includes of a comprehensive review of aircraft accidents in this category, 2-6-digit aircraft for passenger transport. Since this work focused on autopilot, so naturally there is a basic overview of most common autopilots, which can be found in these aircraft now, but in the future. Functional hazard analysis (FHA) for the 4-seater plane for passenger services primarily investigates cases of catastrophic malfunction, which in most cases accompanied by the likelihood taken from different databases. The airplane, which is created for this analysis will preferably equipped with instruments for IFR flights. There is also a brief overview of the regulations necessary for the installation of these systems in the airplane. At the end of this work is to design the dashboard, a design layout of equipment for future aircraft, with an emphasis on maximum transparency.
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Analýza provozních rizik nově zaváděných typů letadel / Analysis of the operational risks of newly introduced aircraft types

Sklenář, Filip January 2014 (has links)
This thesis examines the process of introducing a new aircraft into the service, in particular by the steps from initial vision of a new aircraft until after the aircraft. The content of the thesis consists of seven parts. In the first four sections, I describe the organizations involved in aviation and reliability, physical principles of aircraft systems, accident statistics, regulatory requirements. The fifth section focuses on reliability and describes the procedures for the analysis of reliability. The sixth part is focused on the procedure for introducing new aircraft into service and also includes the methodology for eliminating the element of lack of confidence, which was one of the main objectives of this work. The seventh part is a demonstration of the procedure for the introduction of aircraft into operation.
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DSPNexpress: a software package for the efficient solution of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets

Lindemann, Christoph 10 December 2018 (has links)
This paper describes the analysis tool DSPNexpress which has been developed at the Technische Universität Berlin since 1991. The development of DSPNexpress has been motivated by the lack of a powerful software package for the numerical solution of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPNs) and the complexity requirements imposed by evaluating memory consistency models for multicomputer systems. The development of DSPNexpress has gained by the author's experience with the version 1.4 of the software package GreatSPN. However, opposed to GreatSPN, the software architecture of DSPNexpress is particularly tailored to the numerical evaluation of DSPNs. Furthermore, DSPNexpress contains a graphical interface running under the X11 window system. To the best of the author's knowledge, DSPNexpress is the first software package which contains an efficient numerical algorithm for computing steady-state solutions of DSPNs.
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Restoring Consistency after Network Partitions

Asplund, Mikael January 2007 (has links)
The software industry is facing a great challenge. While systems get more complex and distributed across the world, users are becoming more dependent on their availability. As systems increase in size and complexity so does the risk that some part will fail. Unfortunately, it has proven hard to tackle faults in distributed systems without a rigorous approach. Therefore, it is crucial that the scientific community can provide answers to how distributed computer systems can continue functioning despite faults. Our contribution in this thesis is regarding a special class of faults which occurs whennetwork links fail in such a way that parts of the network become isolated, such faults are termed network partitions. We consider the problem of how systems that have integrity constraints on data can continue operating in presence of a network partition. Such a system must act optimistically while the network is split and then perform a some kind of reconciliation to restore consistency afterwards. We have formally described four reconciliation algorithms and proven them correct. The novelty of these algorithms lies in the fact that they can restore consistency after network partitions in a system with integrity constraints and that one of the protocols allows the system to provide service during the reconciliation. We have implemented and evaluated the algorithms using simulation and as part of a partition-tolerant CORBA middleware. The results indicate that it pays off to act optimistically and that it is worthwhile to provide service during reconciliation.
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Architecture sécurisée pour les systèmes d'information des avions du futur. / Secure architecture for information systems of future aircraft

Lastera, Maxime 04 December 2012 (has links)
Traditionnellement, dans le domaine avionique les logiciels utilisés à bord de l’avion sont totalement séparés des logiciels utilisés au dehors afin d’éviter toutes interaction qui pourrait corrompre les systèmes critiques à bord de l’avion. Cependant, les nouvelles générations d’avions exigent plus d’interactions avec le monde ouvert avec pour objectif de proposer des services étendu, générant ainsi un flux d’information potentiellement dangereux. Dans une précédente étude, nous avons proposé l’utilisation de la virtualisation pour assurer la sûreté de fonctionnement d’applications critiques assurant des communications bidirectionnelles entre systèmes critiques et systèmes non sûr. Dans cette thèse nous proposons deux contributions.La première contribution propose une méthode de comparaison d’hyperviseur. Nous avons développé un banc de test permettant de mesurer les performances d’un système virtualisé. Dans cette étude, différentes configurations ont été expérimentées, d’un système sans OS à une architecture complète avec un hyperviseur et un OS s’exécutant dans une machine virtuelle. Plusieurs tests (processeur, mémoire et réseaux) ont été mesurés et collectés sur différents hyperviseurs.La seconde contribution met l’accent sur l’amélioration d’une architecture de sécurité existante. Un mécanisme de comparaison basé sur l’analyse des traces d’exécution est utilisé pour détecter les anomalies entre instances d’application exécutées sur diverse machines virtuelles. Nous proposons de renforcer le mécanisme de comparaison à l’exécution par l’utilisation d’un modèle d’exécution issu d’une analyse statique du bytecode Java.Afin de valider notre approche, nous avons développé un prototype basé sur un cas d’étude identifié avec Airbus qui porte sur l’utilisation d’un ordinateur portable dédié à la maintenance / Traditionally, in avionics, on-board aircraft software used to be totally separated from open-world software in order to avoid any interaction that could corrupt critical on-board systems. However, new aircraft generations require more interaction with off-board systems to provide extended services, which makes these information flows potentially dangerous.In a previous work, we have proposed the use of virtualization to ensure dependability of critical applications despite bidirectional communication between critical on-board systems and untrusted off-board systems. In this thesis, we propose two contributions.The first contribution concerns the establishment of a benchmark of hypervisors. We have developed a test bed to assess the performance impact induced by the use of virtualization. In this work, various configurations have been experimented ranging from a basic machine without an OS up to the complete architecture featuring a hypervisor and an OS running in a virtual machine. Several tests (computation, memory, and network) are carried out, and timing measures are collected on different hypervisors.The second contribution focuses on the improvement of an existing security architecture. A comparison mechanism based on the analysis of execution traces is used to detect discrepancies between replicas supported by diverse virtual machines. We proposeto strengthen the comparison mechanism at runtime by the use of an execution model, derived from a static analysis of the java bytecode

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