Sandra fault analysis and simulation

Author

Ali, Mohamed ; Cheng, Yuan Bing ; Li, J.P. ; Hu, Y.F. ; Pillai, Padmanabhan ; Pillai, Anu Kalidas ; Xu, Ke

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. Design & Technol., Univ. of Bradford, Bradford, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Fault management is one of the important management functions of a telecommunication network and mainly deals with fault monitoring and diagnosis. This paper applies reliability theories and methodologies for the fault management of an aeronautical communication system developed within the EU FP7 SANDRA project. The failure of the SANDRA terminal demonstrator is an undesirable event and the corresponding fault tree was built upon a reliability function analysis and was used to quickly monitor failures in the system. By using Monte Carlo simulations, the SANDRA demonstrator´s reliability can be predicted and important components, which have major contributions to system failures, can be identified. The results can be used to improve the system reliability by adding parallel components in weak and important places.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; aircraft communication; fault trees; telecommunication network reliability; EU FP7 SANDRA project; Monte Carlo simulation; SANDRA fault analysis; SANDRA terminal demonstrator; aeronautical communication system; fault diagnosis; fault management; fault monitoring; fault simulation; fault tree; reliability function analysis; reliability theory; telecommunication network; Fault trees; Hardware; Logic gates; Monte Carlo methods; Probability; Reliability; Switches; Fault tree analysis (FTA); aeronautical communication system; fault diagnostic; system fault analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2013

Conference_Location

Herndon, VA

ISSN

2155-4943

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6251-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSurv.2013.6548534

Filename

6548534