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2007
13 years 8 months ago
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1, 000, 000 Hours Mean to You?
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson
SEW
2005
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Using Visualization to Understand Dependability: A Tool Support for Requirements Analysis
Dealing with dependability requirements is a complex task for stakeholders and analysts as many different aspects of a system must be taken into account at the same time: services...
Paolo Donzelli, Daniel Hirschbach, Victor R. Basil...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving System Dependability with Functional Alternatives
We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
Charles P. Shelton, Philip Koopman
TRIDENTCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Emulation versus simulation: A case study of TCP-targeted denial of service attacks
—In this paper, we investigate the applicability of simulation and emulation for denial of service (DoS) attack experimentation. As a case study, we consider low-rate TCP-targete...
Roman Chertov, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
ESE
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
An Empirical Method for Selecting Software Reliability Growth Models
Estimating remaining defects or failures in software can help test managers make release decisions during testing. Several methods exist to estimate defect content, among them a v...
Catherine Stringfellow, Anneliese Amschler Andrews