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CCS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
How to tell if your cloud files are vulnerable to drive crashes
This paper presents a new challenge—verifying that a remote server is storing a file in a fault-tolerant manner, i.e., such that it can survive hard-drive failures. We describe...
Kevin D. Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Ari Juels, Alina...
TC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
A Primary-Backup Channel Approach to Dependable Real-Time Communication in Multihop Networks
—Many applications require communication services with guaranteed timeliness and fault tolerance at an acceptable level of overhead. We present a scheme for restoring real-time c...
Seungjae Han, Kang G. Shin
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Profile-guided program simplification for effective testing and analysis
Many testing and analysis techniques have been developed for inhouse use. Although they are effective at discovering defects before a program is deployed, these techniques are oft...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
ISOLA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing Safe, Reliable Systems using Scade
As safety critical systems increase in size and complexity, the need for efficient tools to verify their reliability grows. In this paper we present a tool that helps engineers des...
Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Johan Deneaux, Gunnar St&arin...