Proactive fault-tolerant IGBT-based power converters for mission critical applications in MW range

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor N. Ferreira ◽  
Braz J. Cadoso Filho ◽  
Anderson V. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Power Converters ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Mission Critical

Efficient Fault Tolerance on Cloud Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Goundar ◽  
Akashdeep Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Service Assurance ◽  
Mission Critical ◽  
The Impact

With mission critical web applications and resources being hosted on cloud environments, and cloud services growing fast, the need for having greater level of service assurance regarding fault tolerance for availability and reliability has increased. The high priority now is ensuring a fault tolerant environment that can keep the systems up and running. To minimize the impact of downtime or accessibility failure due to systems, network devices or hardware, the expectations are that such failures need to be anticipated and handled proactively in fast, intelligent way. This article discusses the fault tolerance system for cloud computing environments, analyzes whether this is effective for Cloud environments.

scholarly journals Issues in Design and Development of Reliable Configurable Distributed Checkout and Launch System for Mission Critical Aero-Space Flight Vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4S2) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Keyword(s):  
System Reliability ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Health Checks ◽  
Flight Vehicles ◽  
Mission Critical ◽  
Criticality Analysis

Role of Configurable Distributed Checkout and Launch System (CDCLS) is pivotal in carrying out quick health checks and launching of Aerospace Flight Vehicles. Configurable Distributed Architecture provides flexibility for connecting nodes and scaling Distributed System. Different configurations can be derived from the Master Configuration. Since, Ultra high reliability and infallible performance of the CDCLS is of paramount importance, Safety criticality and Mission criticality analysis needs to be carried out for determination of mission critical parameters. These critical parameters need to be addressed by required fault tolerant architecture, which can be implemented in Hardware and Software for achieving system reliability objective (Say, 0.99).

scholarly journals Fault Tolerant Power Converter Topologies for Sensor-less Speed Control of PMSM Drives

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
Mongi Moujahed ◽  
Bilel Touaiti ◽  
Hechmi Ben Azza ◽  
Mohamed Jemli ◽  
Mohamed Boussak
Keyword(s):  
Power Converters ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Simple Algorithm ◽  
Speed Control ◽  
Power Converter ◽  
Converter Topologies ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Mechanical Sensor ◽  
Opening Phase

This paper exhibits a sensor-less speed control method based MRAS observer applied to a fault-tolerant PMSM drive system. So, this paper proposes a rapid method of fault switch detection in the power converters aiming to make sure the continuity of service even though the fault presence of an opening phase. In fact, the MRAS observer is used to replace the mechanical sensor and a redundant inverter leg is equally employed to replace the faulty leg. The proposed fast fault diagnosis method has the features of simple algorithm, independence of the transient states and being simply integrated without any additional sensors.

Consistency Is Not Enough in Byzantine Fault Tolerance

2018 ◽  
pp. 1238-1247
Author(s):  
Wenbing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Random Numbers ◽  
Security Requirement ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Byzantine Fault Tolerance ◽  
Byzantine Fault ◽  
Mission Critical ◽  
Fault Tolerant Systems

The use of good random numbers is crucial to the security of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious issue arises, i.e., how do we preserve the integrity of the systems while ensuring strong replica consistency? Despite the fact that there exists a large body of work on how to render replicas deterministic under the benign fault model, the solutions regarding the random number control are often overly simplistic without regard to the security requirement, and hence, they are not suitable for practical Byzantine fault tolerance. In this chapter, we present a novel integrity-preserving replica coordination algorithm for Byzantine fault tolerant systems. The central idea behind our CD-BFT algorithm is that all random numbers to be used by the replicas are collectively determined, based on the contributions made by a quorum of replicas, at least f+1 of which are not faulty.

scholarly journals MILP, Pseudo-Boolean, and OMT Solvers for Optimal Fault-Tolerant Placements of Relay Nodes in Mission Critical Wireless Networks*

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-258
Author(s):  
Qian Matteo Chen ◽  
Alberto Finzi ◽  
Toni Mancini ◽  
Igor Melatti ◽  
Enrico Tronci
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Electromagnetic Interference ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Relay Node ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
Relay Nodes ◽  
Mission Critical

In critical infrastructures like airports, much care has to be devoted in protecting radio communication networks from external electromagnetic interference. Protection of such mission-critical radio communication networks is usually tackled by exploiting radiogoniometers: at least three suitably deployed radiogoniometers, and a gateway gathering information from them, permit to monitor and localise sources of electromagnetic emissions that are not supposed to be present in the monitored area. Typically, radiogoniometers are connected to the gateway through relay nodes. As a result, some degree of fault-tolerance for the network of relay nodes is essential in order to offer a reliable monitoring. On the other hand, deployment of relay nodes is typically quite expensive. As a result, we have two conflicting requirements: minimise costs while guaranteeing a given fault-tolerance. In this paper, we address the problem of computing a deployment for relay nodes that minimises the overall cost while at the same time guaranteeing proper working of the network even when some of the relay nodes (up to a given maximum number) become faulty (fault-tolerance). We show that, by means of a computation-intensive pre-processing on a HPC infrastructure, the above optimisation problem can be encoded as a 0/1 Linear Program, becoming suitable to be approached with standard Artificial Intelligence reasoners like MILP, PB-SAT, and SMT/OMT solvers. Our problem formulation enables us to present experimental results comparing the performance of these three solving technologies on a real case study of a relay node network deployment in areas of the Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome, Italy.

Efficient Fault Tolerance on Cloud Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 1231-1243
Author(s):  
Sam Goundar ◽  
Akashdeep Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Service Assurance ◽  
Mission Critical ◽  
The Impact

With mission critical web applications and resources being hosted on cloud environments, and cloud services growing fast, the need for having greater level of service assurance regarding fault tolerance for availability and reliability has increased. The high priority now is ensuring a fault tolerant environment that can keep the systems up and running. To minimize the impact of downtime or accessibility failure due to systems, network devices or hardware, the expectations are that such failures need to be anticipated and handled proactively in fast, intelligent way. This article discusses the fault tolerance system for cloud computing environments, analyzes whether this is effective for Cloud environments.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document