Bugs in concurrent programs are extremely difficult to find and fix during testing. In this paper, we propose Kivati, which can efficiently detect and prevent atomicity violat...
Emulab is a testbed for networked and distributed systems experimentation. Two guiding principles of its design are realism and control of experimentation. There is an inherent te...
Anton Burtsev, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Mike Hible...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
The behavior of a multithreaded program does not depend only on its inputs. Scheduling, memory reordering, timing, and low-level hardware effects all introduce nondeterminism in t...
Tom Bergan, Owen Anderson, Joseph Devietti, Luis C...