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DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Processor-Level Selective Replication
Full duplication of an entire application (through spatial or temporal redundancy) would detect many errors that are benign to the application from the perspective of the end-user...
Nithin Nakka, Karthik Pattabiraman, Ravishankar K....
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Scaling and Continuous Availability in Database Server Clusters through Multiversion Replication
In this paper, we study replication techniques for scaling and continuous operation for a dynamic content server. Our focus is on supporting transparent and fast reconfiguration ...
Kaloian Manassiev, Cristiana Amza
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Quality of Service of Crash-Recovery Failure Detectors
In this paper, we study and model a crash-recovery target and its failure detector’s probabilistic behavior. We extend Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to measure the recovery d...
Tiejun Ma, Jane Hillston, Stuart Anderson
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Fault Tolerant Planning for Critical Robots
Autonomous robots offer alluring perspectives in numerous application domains: space rovers, satellites, medical assistants, tour guides, etc. However, a severe lack of trust in t...
Benjamin Lussier, Matthieu Gallien, Jér&eac...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Superscalar Processor Performance Enhancement through Reliable Dynamic Clock Frequency Tuning
Synchronous circuits are typically clocked considering worst case timing paths so that timing errors are avoided under all circumstances. In the case of a pipelined processor, thi...
Viswanathan Subramanian, Mikel Bezdek, Naga Durga ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Architecture-Level Soft Error Analysis: Examining the Limits of Common Assumptions
This paper concerns the validity of a widely used method for estimating the architecture-level mean time to failure (MTTF) due to soft errors. The method first calculates the fai...
Xiaodong Li, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose, Jude A. ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Utilizing Dynamically Coupled Cores to Form a Resilient Chip Multiprocessor
Aggressive CMOS scaling will make future chip multiprocessors (CMPs) increasingly susceptible to transient faults, hard errors, manufacturing defects, and process variations. Exis...
Christopher LaFrieda, Engin Ipek, José F. M...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Case for FEC-Based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks
Many important applications in wireless mesh networks require reliable multicast communication. Previously, Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques have been proved successful f...
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu