—Parallelism has often been used to improve the reliability and efficiency of a variety of different engineering systems. In this paper, we quantify the efficiency of paralleli...
Jian Tan, Wei Wei, Bo Jiang, Ness Shroff, Donald F...
— With the advent of MPLS, the restoration times of communications is decreased down to 50 ms by the use of preconfigured backup LSPs. To ensure there are enough resources after ...
Mohand Yazid Saidi, Bernard Cousin, Jean-Louis Le ...
The cost and complexity of administration of large systems has come to dominate their total cost of ownership. Stateless and soft-state components, such as Web servers or network ...
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Grid applications comprise several components and web-services that make them highly prone to the occurrence of transient software failures and aging problems. This type of failur...