TY  - THES
A3  - Obermaisser, Roman
AB  - This thesis presents a methodology and tool for verifying and validating the integrated system behaviour of time-triggered Ethernet networks. The determinism and sufficient bandwidth provided by time-triggered Ethernet network make it appealing for building safety-critical systems in different domains such as railway, aviation, health, and automobile. Many applications in these domains impose stringent dependability requirements. Therefore, verification and validation are often required at most stages of the development process when designing these systems.
      
    Due to the complexity of time-triggered network protocols, design engineers mostly employ formal methods and simulations as the verification and validation techniques. However, these methods mainly verify and validate only certain functions of the time-triggered protocol and not the integrated system behaviour. The reasons stem from the downsides of these approaches. The formal method suffers from a state-space explosion when modelling complex systems, and simulators do not sufficiently model certain complex functionality.  Simulators also require cross-verification from a physical network to gain better confidence. Since evaluating the physical realisation of time-triggered Ethernet networks results in the best confidence levels, this work then focuses on the use of fault injection on physical devices for this purpose.
 
    This work proposes a novel and topology independent cut-through fault injection framework that can be used to evaluate the integrated system behaviour of time-triggered Ethernet networks. This work also describes a technique that can be used for failure detection in time-triggered networks during the synchronisation startup before the establishment of global time. It furthermore presents a discussion of experimental procedure(s) and results that demonstrate the use of the fault injection framework for the evaluation of a selection of different use cases. The Experiments carried out herein confirms how the novel fault injection framework surpasses other time-triggered Ethernet frameworks by satisfying a set of collective requirements which mainly include low-intrusiveness, portability, and the abstraction of fault injection component from the network under test.
AU  - Onwuchekwa, Daniel
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.25819/ubsi/5828
KW  - Fault Injection
KW  - Time Sensitive Networking
KW  - TTEthernet
KW  - Dependability Evaluation
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
TI  - Fault injection framework for time-triggered systems
TT  - Framework zur Fehlereinstreuung in zeitgesteuerten Systemen
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-17270
Y2  - 2024-12-26T22:19:20
ER  -