Fault tolerant and fault testable hardware design
Fault tolerant and fault testable hardware design
Fault Injection for Dependability Validation: A Methodology and Some Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Fault Injection Experiments Using FIAT
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Estimators for Fault Tolerance Coverage Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on fault-tolerant computing
DEPEND: A Simulation-Based Environment for System Level Dependability Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications
Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications
Fault Injection Techniques and Tools
Computer
Xception: A Technique for the Experimental Evaluation of Dependability in Modern Computers
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
RIFLE: A General Purpose Pin-level Fault Injector
EDCC-1 Proceedings of the First European Dependable Computing Conference on Dependable Computing
On Stratified Sampling for High Coverage Estimations
EDCC-2 Proceedings of the Second European Dependable Computing Conference on Dependable Computing
Experimental assessment of parallel systems
FTCS '96 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
A Comparison of Simulation Based and Scan Chain Implemented Fault Injection
FTCS '98 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Eighth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Validation of the Fault/Error Handling Mechanisms of the Teraflops Supercomputer
FTCS '98 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Eighth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
IPDS '95 Proceedings of the International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium on Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium
DOCTOR: an integrated software fault injection environment for distributed real-time systems
IPDS '95 Proceedings of the International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium on Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium
FTCS'95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth international conference on Fault-tolerant computing
IOLTW '00 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop (IOLTW)
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Server dependability is of increasing importance as more critical applications rely on the client-server computing model. As a consequence, complex fault/error handling mechanisms are becoming common features of today servers. This paper presents a new simulated fault injection method, which allows the assessment of the effectiveness of error detection mechanisms without using expensive test circuits. Fault injection was performed in two stages. First, physical fault injection was performed on a prototype server. Transient faults were injected in randomly selected signals. Traces of the signals sensitive to transients were captured. A complex protocol checker was devised for increasing error detection. The new detection circuitry was simulated in the second stage of the experiment. Signal traces, injected with transient faults, were used as inputs of the simulation. The error detection coverage and latency were derived. Fault injection also showed that coverage probability was a function of fault duration.