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PODC
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Timeliness, failure-detectors, and consensus performance
We study the implication that various timeliness and failure detector assumptions have on the performance of consensus algorithms that exploit them. We present a general framework...
Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Realistic Look At Failure Detectors
This paper shows that, in an environment where we do not bound the number of faulty processes, the class P of Perfect failure detectors is the weakest (among realistic failure det...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Rachid ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptation to robot failures and shape change in decentralized construction
— Our prior work [1] presented a decentralized algorithm for coordinating the construction of a truss structure out of multiple components. In this paper, we discuss adaptation i...
Seung-kook Yun, Daniela Rus
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Samsara: honor among thieves in peer-to-peer storage
Peer-to-peer storage systems assume that their users consume resources in proportion to their contribution. Unfortunately, users are unlikely to do this without some enforcement m...
Landon P. Cox, Brian D. Noble
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy