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Experimental record
Fault injection
Agent dropout
Zero out an agent's participation entirely
Injection definition
Agent dropout models complete hardware node crashes, power outages, or physical failures by instantly zeroing out a target agent's participation in the multi-agent system (randomized onset between steps 40–60). The failed agent stops publishing state updates, issuing control actions, or responding to coordination signals. Surrounding agents must dynamically detect the missing node and redistribute workload across remaining functional units without causing system overflow or deadlock.
Duration modes
- Permanent: the fault persists for the relevant evaluation.
- Transient: the fault is introduced for a bounded interval.