Module 1: Introduction to fault tolerance, Requirement of Fault Tolerance, Goals and Characteristics of fault tolerance, Challenges for fault tolerance, Types of faults: Hard, Soft, Transient, Intermittent and Byzantine Faults, Causes of Faults: Environment, Out of range, Physical damage

Module 2: Fault Model: PMC Model, BGM, MM, MM* and comparison models, Composite Fault Models

Module 3: Algorithms for Fault Detection and Diagnosis: System level diagnosis, Centralized Vs. Distributed Diagnosis, Static Vs. Dynamic Diagnosis, Diagnosis Algorithms, Asymptotic Complexity, Diagnosable systems, t diagnosability, k-connectivity, diagnosis parameters, Replica Management, K+1 Redundancy, Mechanisms for fault detection.

Module 3: Fault Isolation and Fault Recovery: Fault tree, Isolation and Recovery Algorithms, Fault Evaluation: Generic Evaluation Parameters, Diagnosis Latency, Diagnosis Start-up Time, False Alarm Rate, Time, Space & Message Complexity of Fault diagnosis algorithms

Module 4: Introduction to Fault Diagnosis in distributed systems such as Clusters, Grids, Internet, Cloud, Edge and Fog Computing Systems, Iot Systems, Multi-UAV systems, Automated Fault Diagnosis, WSN, MANET, VANET, FANET, AANET, Role of Fault diagnosis to achieve fault tolerance. Fault diagnosis in distributed embedded systems

To identify the types of faults and fault behavior in distributed systems

To develop fault detection, diagnosis and recovery algorithms

To evaluate the fault tolerant systems using standard diagnosis parameters

To apply the fault diagnosis algorithms to different distributed systems

Performance evaluation of fault tolerant systems

Identify the policy and mechanisms for achieving fault tolerance in distributed networks

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