• Title/Summary/Keyword: a fault-tolerant system

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Development of Process Control Graphic System for Power Plant Using Multiple Microcomputers (다중 마이크로 컴퓨터를 이용한 발전소 공정제어 그래픽 시스템의 개발)

  • ;;;Zeungnam Bien
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.217-227
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    • 1989
  • A process control graphic system is proposed as an efficient tool for monitoring the operation of power plant. It uses the multi-processor structure with 60 Kbyte shared memory as an implemental type of the distributed computer system, so that it is flexible, functionally extensible, and applicable to real-time process. The shared memory is used as a real-time database handling the process values and operator's commands. The database files, generated by the user-interactive graphic editor developed for the system or text editor, have the characteristics of simplicity and user-friendliness. The process control graphic system, that can monitor the operation of boiler and function as a backup controller in case of failure in boiler controller, is applied to Ulsan power plant. As a result, it displays the operating data of the boiler process without error by 14 pages of color graphic image according to the operation menu, and additionally functions well as a fault-tolerant control system.

Message Routing Algorithm on an Injured Hypercube (손상된 하이퍼큐브상의 메세지 라우팅 알고리즘)

  • Gong, Heon-Taek;U, Ji-Un
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.242-250
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    • 1996
  • Communications on hypercube nodes are done by explicit message routing. So efficient message routing is very important for the performance of hypercube multicomputers. However, hypercube nodes can be faulty due to hardware and/o r software problems, which is called an injured hypercube. A reliable hypercube system should tolerate the problems. One of the methods to enhance reliability on injured hypercube is to use fault-tolerant message routing algorithms. In this paper, we propose a message routing algorithm with possible shortest distance using disjoint paths. To analyze the performance, the algorithm is simulated and evaluated.

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An ORB Extension for support of Fault-Tolerant CORBA (고장감내 CORBA를 지원하기 위한 객체중개자의 확장)

  • Shin, Bum-Joo;Son, Duk-Joo;Kim, Myung-Joon
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2001
  • The failure of network and/or node on which server object is executed is a single point of system failure in the CORBA application. One of the possible ways to overcome such problem is to replicate server objects to several independent nodes. The replicated objects executing same tasks are called object group. In order to provide fault tolerance of server object, this paper proposes and implements new CORBA model that supports the object group based on active replication. The proposed model not only provides interoperability with existing CORBA application but also minimizes additional application interface required to support object group because it uses nop to exchange messages between client and server. And this paper extends IDL structure. Depending to application logic, it makes possible to prevent performance degradation caused by consistency maintenance. At present, this paper supports only active replication. But it can be easily extended to provide warm ancVor cold passive replication without modification of architecture required for active replication.

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The Architecture of an Intelligent Digital Twin for a Cyber-Physical Route-Finding System in Smart Cities

  • Habibnezhad, Mahmoud;Shayesteh, Shayan;Liu, Yizhi;Fardhosseini, Mohammad Sadra;Jebelli, Houtan
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2020.12a
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    • pp.510-519
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    • 2020
  • Within an intelligent automated cyber-physical system, the realization of the autonomous mechanism for data collection, data integration, and data analysis plays a critical role in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of such a system. This construct is particularly vital for fault-tolerant route-finding systems that rely on the imprecise GPS location of the vehicles to properly operate, timely plan, and continuously produce informative feedback to the user. More essentially, the integration of digital twins with cyber-physical route-finding systems has been overlooked in intelligent transportation services with the capacity to construct the network routes solely from the locations of the operating vehicles. To address this limitation, the present study proposes a conceptual architecture that employs digital twin to autonomously maintain, update, and manage intelligent transportation systems. This virtual management simulation can improve the accuracy of time-of-arrival prediction based on auto-generated routes on which the vehicle's real-time location is mapped. To that end, first, an intelligent transportation system was developed based on two primary mechanisms: 1) an automated route finding process in which predictive data-driven models (i.e., regularized least-squares regression) can elicit the geometry and direction of the routes of the transportation network from the cloud of geotagged data points of the operating vehicles and 2) an intelligent mapping process capable of accurately locating the vehicles on the map whereby their arrival times to any point on the route can be estimated. Afterward, the digital representations of the physical entities (i.e., vehicles and routes) were simulated based on the auto-generated routes and the vehicles' locations in near-real-time. Finally, the feasibility and usability of the presented conceptual framework were evaluated through the comparison between the primary characteristics of the physical entities with their digital representations. The proposed architecture can be used by the vehicle-tracking applications dependent on geotagged data for digital mapping and location tracking of vehicles under a systematic comparison and simulation cyber-physical system.

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Redundancy operation method for a distributed public address system (분산형 전관방송 시스템의 이중화 운영 방법)

  • Ryu, Taeha;Kim, Seungcheon
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.8
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2020
  • In the case of a failure due to equipment deterioration in the public address system or a worker's mistake during construction, broadcasting becomes impossible. In this situation, we have designed a more advanced management broadcast system that can broadcast. The broadcasting service is operated using main broadcasting device, and local broadcasting device operates separately only in the local area. If the main broadcasting device becomes inoperable, the procedure for transferring the control activates the device with the local broadcasting devices based on data backed up by the main controller. This paper proposes an improved method of the conventional emergency broadcasting device duplication method. The existing method could not use the standby equipment in the normal state, but in the proposed method, the standby equipment can be used as local broadcasting equipment in usually. This method enables stable system operation while minimizing resource waste due to redundant configuration of expensive devices.

Analysis of the problems in(SMRT) L-CTC and derivation of measures (서울도시철도(SMRT) L-CTC의 문제점 분석 및 해결 방안 도출)

  • Park, Geum-Heui;Lee, Jong-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.1204-1212
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    • 2008
  • This study enables to troubleshoot the problems of the existing dual system with the help of the implementation of totally dualized fault-tolerant system to L-CTC computer and HADAX, and equipments are simplified and systems are modernized with the addition of the control function, as a upgraded LCP control system, to L-CTC computer on the basis of WINDOWS based O/S switched from DOS environment. An error on Microlok, which is aninterlocking apparatus, forwarded to L-CTC computer ensures to handle the false data during the operation of the system. This paper discusses a sure way to prevent the deterioration of (SMRT) L-CYC system and to bolster its stability with formation of the dual system. Additionally, WINDOW based O/S consisting of L-CTC computer leads to simplification and modernization of facilities and enhances maintenance functions offering centralization for branch offices and machine rooms as well.

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The T-tree index recovery for distributed main-memory database systems in ATM switching systems (ATM 교환기용 분산 주기억장치 상주 데이터베이스 시스템에서의 T-tree 색인 구조의 회복 기법)

  • 이승선;조완섭;윤용익
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.1867-1879
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    • 1997
  • DREAM-S is a distributed main-memory database system for the real-time processing of shared operational datra in ATM switching systems. DREAM-S has a client-server architecture in which only the server has the diskstorage, and provides the T-Tree index structure for efficient accesses to the data. We propose a recovery technique for the T-Tree index structre in DREAM-S. Although main-memory database system offer efficient access performance, the database int he main-memory may be broken when system failure such as database transaction failure or power failure occurs. Therfore, a recovery technique that recovers the database (including index structures) is essential for fault tolerant ATM switching systems. Proposed recovery technique relieves the bottleneck of the server processors disk operations by maintaining the T-Tree index structure only in the main-memory. In addition, fast recovery is guaranteed even in large number of client systems since the T-Tree index structure(s) in each system can be recovered cncurrently.

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AKA-PLA: Enhanced AKA Based on Physical Layer Authentication

  • Yang, Jing;Ji, Xinsheng;Huang, Kaizhi;Yi, Ming;Chen, Yajun
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.3747-3765
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    • 2017
  • Existing authentication mechanisms in cellular mobile communication networks are realized in the upper layer by employing cryptographic techniques. Authentication data are broadcasted over the air in plaintext, enabling attackers to completely eavesdrop on the authentication and get some information about the shared secret key between legitimate nodes. Therefore, reusing the same secret key to authenticate several times results in the secret key's information leakage and high attacking rate. In this paper, we consider the most representative authentication mechanism, Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA), in cellular communication networks and propose an enhanced AKA scheme based on Physical Layer Authentication (AKA-PLA). Authentication responses generated by AKA are no longer transmitted in plaintext but masked by wireless channel characteristics, which are not available to adversaries, to generate physical layer authentication responses by a fault-tolerant hash method. The authenticator sets the threshold according to the authentication requirement and channel condition, further verifies the identity of the requester based on the matching result of the physical layer authentication responses. The performance analyses show that the proposed scheme can achieve lower false alarm rate and missing rate, which are a pair of contradictions, than traditional AKA. Besides, it is well compatible with AKA.

An Availability Analysis Of Switching Control System with Hot Standby Fault Tolerant Architecture (Hot Standby 고장 감내 구조를 지원하는 교환 제어시스템의 가동률 분석)

  • Song, Gwang-Seok;Yeo, Hwan-Geun;Han, Chang-Ho;Mun, Tae-Su;Yu, Chung-Ryeol;Lee, Gwang-Bae;Kim, Hyeon-Uk;Yun, Chung-Hwa
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.2 no.6
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    • pp.985-994
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    • 1995
  • In this paper, we propose two hot standby architectures which not only provide high system availability but also lose little data on fault occurrence. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed hot standby architectures, the warm standby architecture. In order to evaluate the performance of the propose d hot standby architectures, the warm standby architecture which is made from the hot standby architecture by eliminating its synchronization unit is considered. After system unavailability for each architecture is computed by using the corresponding Markov state diagram, the results are compared and evaluated. As the results, in most cases, hot standby architectures have higher availability than warm standby architecture. Also, hot standby architecture with external synchronization unit always maintains a little higher availability than hot standby architecture with internal synchronization unit. Active set time and personnel recovery rate for each architecture have little effect on system availability. However, in the case that data recovery time is too long, system availabilities of hot standby architectures and warm standby architecture degrade rapidly. In this case, the performance degradation of hot standby architectures is severe, and system availabilities of hot standby architectures eventually become lower than system availability of warm standby architecture.

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Input Data Synchronization Scheme Based on Redundancy for IMA System (이중화 IMA 시스템의 입력 데이터 동기화 방안)

  • Park, Hong-Youl;Kim, Ki-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.2891-2898
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    • 2014
  • It is feasible to develop a fault tolerant system through module level redundancy on the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA). However, its great implementation complexity is one of important challenges when asynchronous hardware environment is naturally assumed. To solve this problem, Physically Asynchronous Logically Synchronous (PALS) on IMA has been proposed. But, it has adaptation problem by not addressing specific architecture for IMA system. In the paper, we propose how to synchronize the input data on the IMA system under primary/secondary redundancy architecture by referring to existing PALS. In the proposed scheme, we introduce window frame by considering rate monotonic scheduling and analyze the adequate the synchronization time. Finally, we verify the feasibility of the proposed design pattern through the systematic experiments.