An Approach to Improve the Availability of a Traffic Light System

Olajide Blessing Olajide; Oke Alice Olufunke; Odeniyi Olufemi Ayodeji; Olabiyisi Stephen Olatunde; Adeosun Olusegun Olajide

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An Approach to Improve the Availability of a Traffic Light System

Olajide Blessing Olajide, Oke Alice Olufunke, Odeniyi Olufemi Ayodeji, Olabiyisi Stephen Olatunde, Adeosun Olusegun Olajide

Published in International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 13 April 2021 Accepted: 30 April 2021 Published: 6 July 2021

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Abstract

Traffic Light System (TLS) is a standalone safety-critical infrastructure that is used to avert traffic congestion and accidents at a road intersection. It is pertinent that its service must be dependable because any failure could result to loss of lives or resources. The existing fail-safe TLS often experience downtime as a result of inevitable fault developed frequently by its Traffic Light Controller Unit (TLCU) due to harsh weather and other environmental factors exposed to on the roads. Hence, the need for a fault-tolerant TLS that will optimize TLS service delivery even at the event of a faulty TLCU initiated this work. In developing the fault-tolerant TLS, three TLCUs were interfaced using the concept of triple modular redundancy architecture. A disagreement detector was configured to test the viability of the primary TLCU using stationarity process. Markovian process was used to switch a faulty primary TLCU to a good one using majority voter mechanism. The fault-tolerant TLS and existing TLS were simulated using MATLAB R2015a. The performance of the fault-tolerant TLS was evaluated by comparing with that of existing TLS using availability as performance metric. The simulation results revealed that the fault-tolerant TLS yielded 99.9474% availability while simulation results of the existing TLS yielded 97.6199% availability. This work has therefore developed a fault-tolerant TLS that performed better than the existing fail-safe TLS.

Published in	International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijiis.20211004.11
Page(s)	37-43
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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TLS, TLCU, Fail-Safe, Fault-Tolerant, Markovian, Stationarity

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Olajide Blessing Olajide; Oke Alice Olufunke; Odeniyi Olufemi Ayodeji; Olabiyisi Stephen Olatunde; Adeosun Olusegun Olajide. An Approach to Improve the Availability of a Traffic Light System. Int. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 2021, 10(4), 37-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ijiis.20211004.11

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Olajide Blessing Olajide, Oke Alice Olufunke, Odeniyi Olufemi Ayodeji, Olabiyisi Stephen Olatunde, Adeosun Olusegun Olajide. An Approach to Improve the Availability of a Traffic Light System. Int J Intell Inf Syst. 2021;10(4):37-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ijiis.20211004.11

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Olajide Blessing Olajide

Department of Computer Engineering, Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria
Oke Alice Olufunke

Department of Computer Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Odeniyi Olufemi Ayodeji

Department of Computer Science, Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, Nigeria
Olabiyisi Stephen Olatunde

Department of Computer Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Adeosun Olusegun Olajide

Department of Computer Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

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