DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
An important aspect in the development of dependable software is to decide where to locate mechanisms for efficient error detection and recovery. We present a comparison between ...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Model checking has been introduced as an automated technique to verify whether functional properties, expressed in a formal logic like computational tree logic (CTL), do hold in a...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents the experiences of using a symbolic model checker to check the safety properties of a servoloop control system. Symbolic model checking has been shown to be be...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
A virtual duplex system (VDS) can be used to increase safety without the use of structural redundancy on a single machine. If a deterministic program P is calculating a given func...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The architecture and implementation of the LEON-FT processor is presented. LEON-FT is a fault-tolerant 32-bit processor based on the SPARC V8 instruction set. The processors toler...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
As our reliance on computers increases, so does the need for robust software. Previous studies have shown that many C libraries exhibit robustness problems due to exceptional inpu...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Gossip-based broadcast algorithms have been considered as a viable alternative to traditional deterministic reliable broadcast algorithms in large scale environments. However, the...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
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...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...