Reaching fault diagnosis agreement on an unreliable general network

Recently, Siu et al. failed in their attempt to use the FDAMIX protocol to eliminate the fault diagnosis agreement (FDA) problem with mixed faults on the processors in a general network. Therefore, in this study, a new protocol, the FDAL protocol, is introduced to solve the FDA problem with mixed faults on the links. The FDAL is capable of detecting/locating faulty links to reconfigure the unreliable general network into a reliable network, and is able to increase the system performance and strengthen network integrity.