17 resultados para Fault-tolerance
em Doria (National Library of Finland DSpace Services) - National Library of Finland, Finland
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Technology scaling has proceeded into dimensions in which the reliability of manufactured devices is becoming endangered. The reliability decrease is a consequence of physical limitations, relative increase of variations, and decreasing noise margins, among others. A promising solution for bringing the reliability of circuits back to a desired level is the use of design methods which introduce tolerance against possible faults in an integrated circuit. This thesis studies and presents fault tolerance methods for network-onchip (NoC) which is a design paradigm targeted for very large systems-onchip. In a NoC resources, such as processors and memories, are connected to a communication network; comparable to the Internet. Fault tolerance in such a system can be achieved at many abstraction levels. The thesis studies the origin of faults in modern technologies and explains the classification to transient, intermittent and permanent faults. A survey of fault tolerance methods is presented to demonstrate the diversity of available methods. Networks-on-chip are approached by exploring their main design choices: the selection of a topology, routing protocol, and flow control method. Fault tolerance methods for NoCs are studied at different layers of the OSI reference model. The data link layer provides a reliable communication link over a physical channel. Error control coding is an efficient fault tolerance method especially against transient faults at this abstraction level. Error control coding methods suitable for on-chip communication are studied and their implementations presented. Error control coding loses its effectiveness in the presence of intermittent and permanent faults. Therefore, other solutions against them are presented. The introduction of spare wires and split transmissions are shown to provide good tolerance against intermittent and permanent errors and their combination to error control coding is illustrated. At the network layer positioned above the data link layer, fault tolerance can be achieved with the design of fault tolerant network topologies and routing algorithms. Both of these approaches are presented in the thesis together with realizations in the both categories. The thesis concludes that an optimal fault tolerance solution contains carefully co-designed elements from different abstraction levels
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Suurten polttolaitosten päästöjen tarkkailu- ja raportointivaatimukset ovat uudistuneet viime vuosina paljon. Suurimpia muutosten aiheuttajia ovat Valtioneuvoston asetus 1017/2002 ja standardi EN-14181. Tässä työssä kuvataan uudet vaatimukset täyttävän päästöjen tarkkailu- ja raportointijärjestelmän rakentaminen monipolttoainekattilalle. Aluksi esitellään mitä uusia vaatimuksia päästöjen tarkkailulle ja raportoinnille on tullut viime aikoina. Lisäksi selvitetään vaatimusten mahdolliset ristiriidat ja ristiriitatilanteiden ratkaisutavat. Seuraavaksi esitellään vaatimukset täyttävän järjestelmän määritelmät. Erityisestiselvitetään kattilan erityispiirteiden vaatimia ratkaisuja. Lopuksi esitellään päästöjen tarkkailu- ja raportointijärjestelmän käyttökokemuksia ja parantamismahdollisuuksia. Kaikki tarkastelut tehdään ensisijaisesti toiminnanharjoittajan näkökulmasta. Järjestelmä toteutettiin Stora Enso Oyj:n Heinolan Flutingtehtaan voimalaitoksen pääkattilalle, jossa käytetään laajaa polttoainevalikoimaa. Toteutuspaikan valinta tehtiin sillä perusteella, että uudet päästöjen tarkkailu- ja raportointivaatimukset ovat erityisen haasteellisia monipolttoainekattiloiden tapauksessa. Työssä selvitetään järjestelmän soveltamismahdollisuuksia myös kahdella muulla Stora Enson tehtaalla. Käyttöönottovaiheen johtopäätöksenä todettiin päästöjen tarkkailu- ja raportointijärjestelmän täyttävän sille asetetut vaatimukset. Lisäksi havaittiin, että toiminnanharjoittajan kannattaa panostaa erityisesti järjestelmän joustavuuteen, luotettavuuteen, helppokäyttöisyyteen ja vikasietoisuuteen. Toiminnanharjoittaja pystyy määrittelyvaiheessa vaikuttamaan järjestelmän ominaisuuksiin helpommin ja edullisemmin kuin käyttöönoton jälkeen. Toiminnanharjoittajalta vaadittu työtuntimäärä arvioitiin Heinolan Flutingtehtaan tapauksen perusteella. Lopuksi selvitettiin mahdollisia tulevaisuuden kehityskohteita vastaavissa järjestelmissä.
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Lähiverkkojen merkitys organisaatioiden toiminnassa on tänä päivänä tärkeämpi kuin koskaan aiemmin. Lähiverkot toimivat alustana useille tekniikoille ja palveluille. Lähiverkossa liikkuu dataliikenteen lisäksi myös puhetta ja kuvaa. Verkko mahdollistaa oheislaitteiden, kuten tiedostopalvelimien ja tulostimien, jakamisen ja käyttämisen koko verkon alueelta. Lähiverkkojen yhdistäminen voidaan toteuttaa teleoperaattoreiden toimesta, joten on vaikeaa enää määritellä lähiverkkoa tarkasti. Tämän diplomityön päätavoitteena oli muodostaa tehokas kytkentäinen lähiverkkoarkkitehtuuri. Keskeisenä osana työhön liittyy virtuaaliset lähiverkot, niiden käyttöönotto sekä reititys. Työn teoriaosassa käydään läpi lähiverkon ja tärkeimmän lähiverkkotekniikan, Ethernet-tekniikan peruselementit. Lisäksi käydään läpi TCP/IP- tekniikan periaate, sen keskeisimmät protokollat, VLAN-tekniikka sekä IP-reititys. Työosuudessa toteutettu Pilottiverkko muodostetaan Ciscon kytkin- ja reititinlaitteilla virtuaaliseen oppilaitosympäristöön. Pilottiverkon avulla esitetään vastaukset työn vaatimusmäärittelyihin, joita ovat verkon muunneltavuuden helppous, useiden broadcast-alueiden toteuttamisen mahdollisuus sekä käyttörajoituksiin perustuvan tietoturvan ja vikasietoisuuden mahdollistaminen verkossa.
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Virtalähdejärjestelmä koostuu itsenäisesti toimivista virtalähdeyksiköistä. Virtalähdeyksiköt ovat rinnankytketty syöttämään virtaa kuormaan. Tämä diplomityö käsittelee virtalähdeyksiköiden ohjaamiseen liittyviä ongelmia ja ratkaisuja. Työssä suunnitellaan virtalähdejärjestelmän ohjauselektroniikkaa sekä mikrokontrollerin ohjelmakoodia. Lisäksi kehitetään ratkaisuja virtalähteen hallintaan ja automaattiseen ohjaukseen. Huomiota kiinnitetään vikasietoisuuteen ja käyttäjäystävällisyyteen.
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Software faults are expensive and cause serious damage, particularly if discovered late or not at all. Some software faults tend to be hidden. One goal of the thesis is to figure out the status quo in the field of software fault elimination since there are no recent surveys of the whole area. Basis for a structural framework is proposed for this unstructured field, paying attention to compatibility and how to find studies. Bug elimination means are surveyed, including bug knowhow, defect prevention and prediction, analysis, testing, and fault tolerance. The most common research issues for each area are identified and discussed, along with issues that do not get enough attention. Recommendations are presented for software developers, researchers, and teachers. Only the main lines of research are figured out. The main emphasis is on technical aspects. The survey was done by performing searches in IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and Inspect databases. In addition, a systematic search was done for a few well-known related journals from recent time intervals. Some other journals, some conference proceedings and a few books, reports, and Internet articles have been investigated, too. The following problems were found and solutions for them discussed. Quality assurance is testing only is a common misunderstanding, and many checks are done and some methods applied only in the late testing phase. Many types of static review are almost forgotten even though they reveal faults that are hard to be detected by other means. Other forgotten areas are knowledge of bugs, knowing continuously repeated bugs, and lightweight means to increase reliability. Compatibility between studies is not always good, which also makes documents harder to understand. Some means, methods, and problems are considered method- or domain-specific when they are not. The field lacks cross-field research.
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The power rating of wind turbines is constantly increasing; however, keeping the voltage rating at the low-voltage level results in high kilo-ampere currents. An alternative for increasing the power levels without raising the voltage level is provided by multiphase machines. Multiphase machines are used for instance in ship propulsion systems, aerospace applications, electric vehicles, and in other high-power applications including wind energy conversion systems. A machine model in an appropriate reference frame is required in order to design an efficient control for the electric drive. Modeling of multiphase machines poses a challenge because of the mutual couplings between the phases. Mutual couplings degrade the drive performance unless they are properly considered. In certain multiphase machines there is also a problem of high current harmonics, which are easily generated because of the small current path impedance of the harmonic components. However, multiphase machines provide special characteristics compared with the three-phase counterparts: Multiphase machines have a better fault tolerance, and are thus more robust. In addition, the controlled power can be divided among more inverter legs by increasing the number of phases. Moreover, the torque pulsation can be decreased and the harmonic frequency of the torque ripple increased by an appropriate multiphase configuration. By increasing the number of phases it is also possible to obtain more torque per RMS ampere for the same volume, and thus, increase the power density. In this doctoral thesis, a decoupled d–q model of double-star permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous machines is derived based on the inductance matrix diagonalization. The double-star machine is a special type of multiphase machines. Its armature consists of two three-phase winding sets, which are commonly displaced by 30 electrical degrees. In this study, the displacement angle between the sets is considered a parameter. The diagonalization of the inductance matrix results in a simplified model structure, in which the mutual couplings between the reference frames are eliminated. Moreover, the current harmonics are mapped into a reference frame, in which they can be easily controlled. The work also presents methods to determine the machine inductances by a finite-element analysis and by voltage-source inverters on-site. The derived model is validated by experimental results obtained with an example double-star interior PM (IPM) synchronous machine having the sets displaced by 30 electrical degrees. The derived transformation, and consequently, the decoupled d–q machine model, are shown to model the behavior of an actual machine with an acceptable accuracy. Thus, the proposed model is suitable to be used for the model-based control design of electric drives consisting of double-star IPM synchronous machines.
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This thesis presents a novel design paradigm, called Virtual Runtime Application Partitions (VRAP), to judiciously utilize the on-chip resources. As the dark silicon era approaches, where the power considerations will allow only a fraction chip to be powered on, judicious resource management will become a key consideration in future designs. Most of the works on resource management treat only the physical components (i.e. computation, communication, and memory blocks) as resources and manipulate the component to application mapping to optimize various parameters (e.g. energy efficiency). To further enhance the optimization potential, in addition to the physical resources we propose to manipulate abstract resources (i.e. voltage/frequency operating point, the fault-tolerance strength, the degree of parallelism, and the configuration architecture). The proposed framework (i.e. VRAP) encapsulates methods, algorithms, and hardware blocks to provide each application with the abstract resources tailored to its needs. To test the efficacy of this concept, we have developed three distinct self adaptive environments: (i) Private Operating Environment (POE), (ii) Private Reliability Environment (PRE), and (iii) Private Configuration Environment (PCE) that collectively ensure that each application meets its deadlines using minimal platform resources. In this work several novel architectural enhancements, algorithms and policies are presented to realize the virtual runtime application partitions efficiently. Considering the future design trends, we have chosen Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) and Network on Chips (NoCs) to test the feasibility of our approach. Specifically, we have chosen Dynamically Reconfigurable Resource Array (DRRA) and McNoC as the representative CGRA and NoC platforms. The proposed techniques are compared and evaluated using a variety of quantitative experiments. Synthesis and simulation results demonstrate VRAP significantly enhances the energy and power efficiency compared to state of the art.
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Energy efficient policies are being applied to network protocols, devices and classical network management systems. Researchers have already studied in depth each of those fields, including for instance a long monitoring processes of various number of individual ICT equipment from where power models are constructed. With the development of smart meters and emerging protocols such as SNMP and NETCONF, currently there is an open field to couple the power models, translated to the expected behavior, with the realtime energy measurements. The goal is to derive a comparison on the power data between both of the processes in the direction of detection for possible deviations on the expected results. The logical assumption is that a fault in the usage of a particular device will not only increase its own energy usage, but also may cause additional consumption on the other devices part of the network. A platform is developed to monitor and analyze the retrieved power data of a simulated enterprise ICT infrastructure. Moreover, smart algorithms are developed which are aware of the different states that are occurring on each device during their typical use phase, as well as to detect and isolate possible anomalies. The produced results are obtained and validated with the use of Cisco switches and routers, Dell Precision stations and Raritan PDU as part of the monitored infrastructure.
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Selostus: Perunan ja perunahybridien jäätymisen ja fotoinhibition kestävyys
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Shallow coastal areas are dynamic habitats that are affected by a variety of abiotic and biotic factors. In addition to the natural environmental stress, estuarine and coastal seagrass ecosystems are exposed to effects of climate change and other anthropogenic impacts. In this thesis the effect of different abiotic (shading stress, salinity and temperature) and biotic stressors (presence of co-occurring species) and different levels and combinations of stressors on the performance and survival of eelgrass (Zostera marina) was assessed. To investigate the importance of scale for stress responses, varying levels of biological organization (genotype, life stage, population and plant community) were studied in field and aquarium experiments. Light limitation, decreased salinity and increased temperature affected eelgrass performance negatively in papers I, II and III, respectively. While co-occurring plant species had no notable effect on eelgrass in paper IV, the presence of eelgrass increased the biomass of Potamogeton perfoliatus. The findings in papers II and III confirmed that more extreme levels of salinity and temperature had stronger impacts on plant performance compared to intermediate levels, but intermediate levels also had more severe effects on plants when they were exposed to several stressors, as illustrated in paper II. Thus, multiple stressors had negative synergetic effects. The results in papers I, II and III indicate that future changes in light climate, salinity and temperature can have serious impacts on eelgrass performance and survival. Stress responses were found to vary among genotypes, life stages and populations in papers I, II and III, respectively, emphasizing the importance of study scale. The results demonstrate that while stress in general affects seagrass productivity negatively, the severity of effects can vary substantially depending on the studied scale or level of biological organization. Eelgrass genotypes can differ in their stress and recovery processes, as observed in paper I. In paper II, eelgrass seedlings were less prone to abiotic stress compared to adult plants, but stress also decreased their survival considerably. This indicates that recruitment and re-colonization through seeds might be threatened in the future. Variation among population responses observed in paper III indicates that long-term local adaptation under differing selection pressures has caused divergence in salinity tolerance between Baltic eelgrass populations. This variability in stress tolerance observed in papers I and III suggests that some eelgrass genotypes and populations have a better capacity to adapt to changes and survive in a changing environment. Multiple stressors and biological level-specific responses demonstrate the uncertainty in predicting eelgrass responses in a changing environment. As eelgrass populations may differ in their stress tolerance both within and across regions, conservation strategies at both local and regional scales are urgently needed in order to ensure the survival of these important ecosystems.
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This master thesis work introduces the fuzzy tolerance/equivalence relation and its application in cluster analysis. The work presents about the construction of fuzzy equivalence relations using increasing generators. Here, we investigate and research on the role of increasing generators for the creation of intersection, union and complement operators. The objective is to develop different varieties of fuzzy tolerance/equivalence relations using different varieties of increasing generators. At last, we perform a comparative study with these developed varieties of fuzzy tolerance/equivalence relations in their application to a clustering method.