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DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 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
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Characterizing the Effects of Transient Faults on a High-Performance Processor Pipeline
The progression of implementation technologies into the sub-100 nanometer lithographies renew the importance of understanding and protecting against single-event upsets in digital...
Nicholas J. Wang, Justin Quek, Todd M. Rafacz, San...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
FRTR: A Scalable Mechanism for Global Routing Table Consistency
This paper presents a scalable mechanism, Fast Routing Table Recovery (FRTR), for detecting and correcting route inconsistencies between neighboring BGP routers. The large size of...
Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, Keyur Patel, Lixia Zhang
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Checkpointing of Control Structures in Main Memory Database Systems
This paper proposes an application-transparent, low-overhead checkpointing strategy for maintaining consistency of control structures in a commercial main memory database (MMDB) sy...
Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iye...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient Hierarchic Management For Reconfiguration of Networked Information Systems
The management of modern distributed systems is complicated by scale and dynamics. Scalable, decoupled communication establishes flexible, loosely coupled component relationships,...
Jonathan C. Rowanhill, Philip E. Varner, John C. K...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Dependable Adaptive Real-Time Applications in Wormhole-based Systems
This paper describes and discusses the work carried on in the context of the CORTEX project, for the development of adaptive real-time applications in wormhole based systems. The ...
Pedro Martins, Paulo Jorge Paiva de Sousa, Antonio...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Failure Dependent Protection in Optical Grooming Networks
Resiliency to link failures in optical networks is becoming increasingly important due to the increasing data rate in the fiber. Path protection schemes attempt to guarantee a bac...
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework for Dynamic Byzantine Storage
We present a framework for transforming several quorum-based protocols so that they can dynamically adapt their failure threshold and server count, allowing them to be reconfigure...
Jean-Philippe Martin, Lorenzo Alvisi
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Caching-Enhanced Scalable Reliable Multicast
We present the Caching-Enhanced Scalable Reliable Multicast (CESRM) protocol. CESRM augments the Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM) protocol [4,5] with a caching-based expedited re...
Carolos Livadas, Idit Keidar