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DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Placement of Software Mechanisms for Detection of Data Errors
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 ...
Martin Hiller, Arshad Jhumka, Neeraj Suri
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Model Checking Performability Properties
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...
Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Lucia Cloth, Holger Herman...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Time-Constrained Failure Diagnosis in Distributed Embedded Systems
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
Nagarajan Kandasamy, John P. Hayes, Brian T. Murra...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Model Checking Safety Properties of Servo-Loop Control Systems
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...
M. Edwin Johnson
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Detecting Processor Hardware Faults by Means of Automatically Generated Virtual Duplex Systems
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...
Markus Jochim
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Portable and Fault-Tolerant Microprocessor Based on the SPARC V8 Architecture
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...
Jiri Gaisler
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Automated Approach to Increasing the Robustness of C Libraries
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...
Christof Fetzer, Zhen Xiao
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic Multicast
Gossip-based broadcast algorithms have been considered as a viable alternative to traditional deterministic reliable broadcast algorithms in large scale environments. However, the...
Patrick Th. Eugster, Rachid Guerraoui
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 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 ...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Robust Software - No More Excuses
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...
John DeVale, Philip Koopman