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Comparative Study of the System Operational Method for Fault-Tolernace (Fault-Tolerance를 위한 시스템의 동작방식에 대한 비교 연구)

  • 양성현;이기서
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.1279-1289
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    • 1992
  • Fault-tolerant system in improved the reliability and safety by using hardware and software redundancy. Fault mask and detection, identification techniques are conditionally used with system's application areas. Here DMR system is operated with standby and fail-safe module method that has minimal hardware and software redundancy, then its reliablity and safety comparison is presented respectively. Also this paper proposed an effective methods of dealing with transient faults as compared system's MTTFs to transient faults tolerance capabilities of self-diagnosis program.

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A Software Reliability Growth Model with Probability of Imperfect Debugging (결함 제거의 실패를 고려하는 소프트웨어 신뢰도 모델)

  • Kim, Y.H.;Kim, S.I.;Lee, W.H.
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 1992
  • Common assumption we frequently encounter in early models of software reliability is that no new faults are introduced during the fault removal process. In real life, however, there are situations in which new faults are introducted as a result of imperfect debugging. This study alleviating this assumption by introducting the probability of perfect error-correction is an extension of Littlewood's work. In this model, the system reliability, failure rates, mean time to failure and average failure frequency are obtained. Here, when the probability of perfect error-correction is one, the results appear identical with those of the previous studies. In the respect that the results of previous studies are special cases of this model, the model developed can be considered as a generalized one.

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Fault Location Technique of 154 kV Substation using Neural Network (신경회로망을 이용한 154kV 변전소의 고장 위치 판별 기법)

  • Ahn, Jong-Bok;Kang, Tae-Won;Park, Chul-Won
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.9
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    • pp.1146-1151
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    • 2018
  • Recently, researches on the intelligence of electric power facilities have been trying to apply artificial intelligence techniques as computer platforms have improved. In particular, faults occurring in substation should be able to quickly identify possible faults and minimize power fault recovery time. This paper presents fault location technique for 154kV substation using neural network. We constructed a training matrix based on the operating conditions of the circuit breaker and IED to identify the fault location of each component of the target 154kV substation, such as line, bus, and transformer. After performing the training to identify the fault location by the neural network using Weka software, the performance of fault location discrimination of the designed neural network was confirmed.

An Interlace Test Tool Based on an Emulator for Improving Embedded Software Testing (임베디드 소프트웨어 테스트를 개선하기 위한 에뮬레이터 기반 인터페이스 테스트 도구)

  • Seo, Joo-Young;Choi, Byoung-Ju
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.547-558
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    • 2008
  • Embedded system is tightly coupled with heterogeneous layers such as application, as kernel, device driver, HAL and hardware. Embedded system is customized for the specific purpose and hardware. In addition, the product cycle is so fast that software and hardware, which are developed by several vendors, are integrated together under unstable status. Therefore, there are lots of possibilities of faults in all layers. Because embedded software developers test their codes integrated with faulty layers, they cannot confirm 'whether testing of every aspects was completed, their code was failed, or integrated software/hardware has some problems'. In this paper, we propose an embedded software interface test method and a test tool called Justitia for detecting faults and tracing causes in the interface among heterogeneous layers. The proposed technique is an automated method which improves debugging upto professional testing using an emulator for helping developer.

A Study on Optimal Release Time for Software Systems based on Generalized Gamma Distribution (일반화 감마분포에 근거한 소프트웨어 최적방출시기에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Wook;Kim, Hee-Cheul
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2010
  • Decision problem called an optimal release policies, after testing a software system in development phase and transfer it to the user, is studied. The applied model of release time exploited infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process. This infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process is a model which reflects the possibility of introducing new faults when correcting or modifying the software. The failure life-cycle distribution used generalized gamma type distribution which has the efficient various property because of various shape and scale parameter. Thus, software release policies which minimize a total average software cost of development and maintenance under the constraint of satisfying a software reliability requirement becomes an optimal release policies. In a numerical example, after trend test applied and estimated the parameters using maximum likelihood estimation of inter-failure time data, estimated software optimal release time.

A Study of Software Optimal Release Time for Based on Superposition NHPP Model (중첩 NHPP 모형에 근거한 소프트웨어 최적방출시기에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hee Cheul
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2010
  • Decision problem called an optimal release policies, after testing a software system in development phase and transfer it to the user, is studied. The applied model of release time exploited infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process. This infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process is a model which reflects the possibility of introducing new faults when correcting or modifying the software. The failure life-cycle distribution used superposition which has various intensity, if the system is complicated. Thus, software release policies which minimize a total average software cost of development and maintenance under the constraint of satisfying a software reliability requirement becomes an optimal release policies. In a numerical example, after trend test applied and estimated the parameters using maximum likelihood estimation of inter-failure time data, estimated software optimal release time. Through this study, in terms of superposition model and simply model, the optimal time to using superposition model release the software developer to determine how much could count will help.

A Study on the Imperfect Debugging of Logistic Testing Function (로지스틱 테스트함수의 불완전 디버깅에 관한 연구)

  • Che, Gyu-Shik;Moon, Myung-Ho;Yang, Kye-Tak
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2010
  • The software reliability growth model(SRGM) has been developed in order to estimate such reliability measures as remaining fault number, failure rate and reliability for the developing stage software. Almost of them assumed that the faults detected during testing were eventually removed. Namely, they have studied SRGM based on the assumption that the faults detected during testing were perfectly removed. The fault removing efficiency, however, is imperfect and it is widely known as so in general. It is very difficult to remove detected fault perfectly because the fault detecting is not easy and new error may be introduced during debugging and correcting. Therefore, We want to study imperfect software testing effort for the logistic testing effort which is thought to be the most adequate in this paper.

A Study on Fault Detection Method in Underground Cables using the Detecting Electro Magnetic Wave and Acoustic Signal (전자파의 음향신호측정에 의한 지중 케이블의 고장점 검출기법에 관한 연구)

  • Min, Kyoung-Rae;Kim, Hun;Yoon, Yong-Han;Kim, Jae-Chul;Song, Ho-Yub
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07c
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    • pp.1357-1359
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    • 1999
  • This paper presents fault detection in cables. We developed the device for detecting pinpoint location of faults in power cables using acoustic method. The proposed device consists of hardware and software for the fault detection. Using the device, we explain how to detect the pinpoint of faults and introduce that the other method use the time delay between electro-magnetic and acoustic signals for the pinpoint of the faults.

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A Study on Design and Reliability Assessment for Embedded Hot-Standby Sparing FT System Using Self-Checking Logic (자기검사회로를 이용한 대기이중계구조 결함허용제어기의 설계 및 신뢰도평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Ho;Lee, Kang-Mi;Kim, Young-Kyu;Shin, Duc-Ko
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.9 no.6 s.37
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    • pp.725-731
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    • 2006
  • Hot Standby sparing system detecting faults by using software, and being tolerant any faults by using Hardware Redundancy is difficult to perform quantitative reliability prediction and to detect real time faults. Therefore, this paper designs Hot Standby sparing system using hardware basis self checking logic in order to overcome this problem. It also performs failure mode analysis of Hot Standby sparing system with designed self checking logic by using FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis), and identifies reliability assessment of the controller designed by quantifying the numbers of failure development by using FTA (Fault Tree Analysis)