Complementary Fault Models for Assessing the Effectiveness of Hamming Codes

Abstract

Communication channels have always been errorprone. To counteract these transmission errors, Error Detection and Correction Codes have been used for a long time. To test the effectiveness of these codes, different fault models can be used. This paper presents two fault models: a systematic fault injection model and an EMI fault model. Both models resemble different kinds of disturbance sources, such as thermal noise, degrading components or electromagnetic interference. By combining both models, as is the aim of this paper, a comprehensive study on the vulnerabilities within a communication channel can be made.