DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes the OFTT (OLE Fault Tolerance Technology), a fault tolerance middleware toolkit running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system that provides required fa...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
In this paper, we propose new scheduling algorithms to achieve fault security in multiprocessor systems. We consider scheduling of parallel programs represented by directed acycli...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Group communication is a widely studied paradigm for building fault-tolerant distributed systems. The Armada project at the University of Michigan is a collaborative effort with t...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes an experiment in formal specification and validation performed in the context of an industrial joint project. The project involved an Italian company working...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
ts the abstraction of e-Transactions in three-tier architectures. Three-tier architectures are typically Internetoriented architectures, where the end-user interacts with frontend ...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
The increasing number of Internet users has caused a dramatic increase in electronic commerce. This growth is outpacing technologies for dependability causing traditional views of...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Multiple-Phased Systems, whose operational life can be partitioned in a set of disjoint periods, called “phases”, include several classes of systems such as Phased Mission Sys...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
ÐWe study the quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors. By QoS, we mean a specification that quantifies 1) how fast the failure detector detects actual failures and 2) how we...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper presents a generic methodology to transform a protocol resilient to process crashes into one resilient to arbitrary failures in the case where processes run the same te...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Distributed applications can fail in subtle ways that depend on the state of multiple parts of a system. This complicates the validation of such systems via fault injection, since...