An Implementation of Simulation-Based Environment for Bus Fault Injection Techniques

Abstract

Reliability is the most important feature in this more and more complex computer system era. Fault injection is dependability validation technique to evaluating the system. Hardware and Software implementations of fault injection have a long history and are much more mature than simulated fault injection. In this paper, we compare the differences between these three types of fault injections at first. Then, we identify and understand the types of fault. We design a low- cost, simulation-based fault injection system and design experiments to verify the correctness. Keywords-simulation fault injection; reliability;