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Cloud computing systems fail in complex and unexpected ways due to unexpected combinations of events and interactions between hardware and software components. Fault injection is an effective means to bring out these failures in a…

Transient or permanent faults in hardware can render the output of Neural Networks (NN) incorrect without user-specific traces of the error, i.e. silent data errors (SDE). On the other hand, modern NNs also possess an inherent redundancy…

To ensure resilient neural network processing on even unreliable hardware, comprehensive reliability analysis against various hardware faults is generally required before the deep neural network models are deployed, and efficient error…

Fault injection is a key technique for assessing software reliability, enabling proactive detection of system defects before they manifest in production. However, the increasing complexity of microservice architectures leads to exponential…

Fault diagnosis has attracted extensive attention for its importance in the exceedingly fault management framework for cloud virtualization, despite the fact that fault diagnosis becomes more difficult due to the increasing scalability and…

The experimental evaluation of fault-tolerance studies relies on tools that inject errors while programs are running, and then monitor the execution and the output for faulty execution. In particular, the established methodology in…

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In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Safety-critical designs need to ensure reliable operations under hostile conditions with a certain degree of confidence. The continuously higher complexity of these designs makes them more susceptible to the risk of failure. ISO26262…

Voltage Fault Injection (VFI), also known as power glitching, has proven to be a severe threat to real-world systems. In VFI attacks, the adversary disturbs the power-supply of the target-device forcing the device to illegitimate behavior.…

As machine learning (ML) has seen increasing adoption in safety-critical domains (e.g., autonomous vehicles), the reliability of ML systems has also grown in importance. While prior studies have proposed techniques to enable efficient…

Cloud computing systems fail in complex and unforeseen ways due to unexpected combinations of events and interactions among hardware and software components. These failures are especially problematic when they are silent, i.e., not…

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are critical components of modern secure computing, providing isolated zones in processors to safeguard sensitive data and execute secure operations. Despite their importance, TEEs are increasingly…

Electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) is a well known technique used to disturb the behaviour of a chip for weakening its security. These attacks are mostly done on simple microcontrollers. On these targets, the fault effects are…

FPGAs are now ubiquitous in cloud computing infrastructures and reconfigurable system-on-chip, particularly for AI acceleration. Major cloud service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft are increasingly incorporating FPGAs for specialized…

In this paper, we describe the motivation, innovation, design, running example and future development of a Fault Inject Tool (FIT). This tool enables controlled causing of cloud platform issues such as resource stress and service or VM…

Today, Deep Learning (DL) enhances almost every industrial sector, including safety-critical areas. The next generation of safety standards will define appropriate verification techniques for DL-based applications and propose adequate fault…

As Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are widely adopted in clouds to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNN), such virtualization environments have posed many new security issues. This work investigates the integrity of DNN FPGA…

Voltage fault injection (FI) is a well-known attack technique that can be used to force faulty behavior in processors during their operation. Glitching the supply voltage can cause data value corruption, skip security checks, or enable…

GPU clouds have become a popular computing platform because of the cost of owning and maintaining high-performance computing clusters. Many cloud architectures have also been proposed to ensure a secure execution environment for guest…