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Fault Tolerant Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) in SCADA Systems

Fault Tolerant Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) in SCADA Systems
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Author(s): Syed Misbahuddin (Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan)and Nizar Al-Holou (University of Detroit Mercy, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 11
Source title: Cyber Security Standards, Practices and Industrial Applications: Systems and Methodologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Junaid Ahmed Zubairi (SUNY at Fredonia, USA)and Athar Mahboob (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-851-4.ch009

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Abstract

A Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is composed of number of remote terminal units (RTUs) for collecting field data. These RTUs send the data back to a master station, via a communication link. The master station displays the acquired data and allows the operator to perform remote control tasks. An RTU is a microprocessor based standalone data acquisition control unit. As the RTUs work in harsh environment, the processor inside the RTU is susceptible to random faults. If the processor fails, the equipment or process being monitored will become inaccessible. This chapter proposes a fault tolerant scheme to untangle the RTU’s failure issues. According to the scheme, every RTU will have at least two processing elements. In case of either processor’s failure, the surviving processor will take over the tasks of the failed processor to perform its tasks. With this approach, an RTU can remain functional despite the failure of the processor inside the RTU. Reliability and availability modeling of the proposed fault tolerant scheme have been presented. Moreover, cyber security for SCADA system and recommendations for the mitigation of these issues have been discussed.

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