Multiprocessor Fault Diagnosis Under Local Constraints

  • Authors:
  • A. Das;K. Thulasiraman;V. K. Agarwal;K. B. Lakshmanan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The authors study the fault diagnosis of multiprocessor systems when fault constraints in the local domain of each processor are specified. They use the comparison-based model. A multiprocessor system S is t-in-L diagnosable if, given a syndrome, all faulty processors can be uniquely identified provided there are at most t faulty processors in the local domain L(u/sub i/) union (u/sub i/) of every processor, u/sub i/ in S, where L (u/sub i/) denotes the set of processors adjacent to u/sub i/. Certain basic results that lead to efficient conditions for unique diagnosis of a system when certain fault constraints are satisfied in the local domain of each processor in the system are presented. The t-in-L diagnosability of certain regular interconnected systems is examined under the assumption that less than half of the processors in the system are faulty. Diagnosis algorithms for these systems are presented.