DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Studies have shown that device drivers and extensions contain 3–7 times more bugs than other operating system code and thus are more likely to fail. Therefore, we present a fail...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Assurance Based Development (ABD) is the synergistic construction of a critical computing system and an assurance case that sets out the dependabilit...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper considers the problem of electing an eventual leader in an asynchronous shared memory system. While this problem has received a lot of attention in messagepassing syste...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
A flexible model for estimating reliability of RAID storage systems is presented. This model corrects errors associated with the common assumption that system times to failure fol...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
The usage of mobile devices like cell phones, navigation systems, or laptop computers, is limited by the lifetime of the included batteries. This lifetime depends naturally on the...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
While the new generation of hand-held devices, e.g., smart phones, support a rich set of applications, growing complexity of the hardware and runtime environment makes the devices...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Nowadays, economy, security and quality of life heavily depend on the resiliency of a number of critical infrastructures, including the Electric Power System (EPS), through which ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
If we hope to automatically detect and diagnose failures in large-scale computer systems, we must study real deployed systems and the data they generate. Progress has been hampere...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Dynamic Fault Trees (DFT) extend standard fault trees by allowing the modeling of complex system components’ behaviors and interactions. Being a high level model and easy to use...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Replicated systems that run over partitionable environments, can exhibit increased availability if isolated partitions are allowed to optimistically continue their execution indep...