A Fault Identification Algorithm for ti-Diagnosable Systems

Abstract
In this paper, a new approach to identifying faulty units in ti-diagnosable systems is described. This approach exploits special properties of the highly structured ti-diagnosable systems to produce a faulty unit identification algorithm which is shown to be of time complexity O(|E|) where |E| corresponds to the number of tests in the system. The diagnosis quality of the algorithm is as follows: 1) if the algorithm identifies a unit as faulty, it is always correct; 2) if the collection of test outcomes takes on a form that is compatible with a permanent fault situation, the algorithm identifies all of the corresponding faulty units; and 3) the algorithm identifies at least one faulty unit over collections of test outcomes significantly larger than those that are compatible with permanent fault situations.

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