AN ANALYTIC EXPRESSION OF THE RELIABILITY OF TRANSMISSIONS IN FIELDBUSES WITH PROPAGATED FAILURES

Damien Aza-Vallina (1) , Jean-Marc Faure (1)

1 LURPA - Laboratoire Universitaire de Recherche en Production Automatisée

This paper shows first that the behaviour of a fieldbus whose terminals can be represented by multi-state components with propagated failures may be described by a set of connected mode automata; the input and output flows of these automata represent either data exchanges or failure propagations. A method to obtain an analytic expression of the reliability of a transmission between two terminals from this model is then proposed.

Keywords: Reliability evaluation; Multi-state component; Failure modes; Mode automata; Communication networks

Domains: Automatic

Damien Aza-Vallina, Jean-Marc Faure. AN ANALYTIC EXPRESSION OF THE RELIABILITY OF TRANSMISSIONS IN FIELDBUSES WITH PROPAGATED FAILURES. 4th IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (DCDS 2013), Sep 2013, York, United Kingdom. Paper n°18. ⟨hal-00859016⟩