Cluster systems have been gradually more popular and are being broadly used in a variety of applications. On the other hand, many of those systems are not tolerant to system failu...
The Domain Name System is critical for the proper operation of applications on the Internet. Unfortunately, the DNS has a number of significant security weaknesses that can result...
Wes Griffin, Russ Mundy, Sam Weiler, Dan Massey, N...
In this paper, we present a new online failure forecast system to achieve predictive failure management for fault-tolerant data stream processing. Different from previous reactive ...
Xiaohui Gu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu, Sh...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
We describe an methodology for testing a software system for possible security flaws. Based on the observation that most security flaws are caused by the program’s inappropria...