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DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Multiprocessors May Reduce System Dependability under File-Based Race Condition Attacks
Attacks exploiting race conditions have been considered rare and “low risk”. However, the increasing popularity of multiprocessors has changed this situation: instead of waiti...
Jinpeng Wei, Calton Pu
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
RAS by the Yard
Alan Wood, Swami Nathan
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Assessing Robustness of Web-Services Infrastructures
Web-services are supported by a complex software infrastructure that must provide a robust service to the client applications. This practical experience report presents a practica...
Marco Vieira, Nuno Laranjeiro, Henrique Madeira
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Selection of Error Model(s) for OS Robustness Evaluation
The choice of error model used for robustness evaluation of Operating Systems (OSs) influences the evaluation run time, implementation complexity, as well as the evaluation preci...
Andréas Johansson, Neeraj Suri, Brendan Mur...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Tunable Add-On Diagnostic Protocol for Time-Triggered Systems
We present a tunable diagnostic protocol for generic time-triggered (TT) systems to detect crash and send/receive omission faults. Compared to existing diagnostic and membership p...
Marco Serafini, Neeraj Suri, Jonny Vinter, Astrit ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
User Discrimination through Structured Writing on PDAs
This paper explores whether features of structured writing can serve to discriminate users of handheld devices such as Palm PDAs. Biometric authentication would obviate the need t...
Rachel R. M. Roberts, Roy A. Maxion, Kevin S. Kill...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Cost of Modularity in Atomic Broadcast
Modularity is a desirable property of complex software systems, since it simplifies code reuse, verification, maintenance, etc. However, the use of loosely coupled modules intro...
Olivier Rütti, Sergio Mena, Richard Ekwall, A...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
SLAM: Sleep-Wake Aware Local Monitoring in Sensor Networks
Sleep-wake protocols are critical in sensor networks to ensure long-lived operation. However, an open problem is how to develop efficient mechanisms that can be incorporated with ...
Issa Khalil, Saurabh Bagchi, Ness B. Shroff
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems
Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier o...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Mer...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Web Services Wind Tunnel: On Performance Testing Large-Scale Stateful Web Services
New versions of existing large-scale web services such as Passport.com© have to go through rigorous performance evaluations in order to ensure a high degree of availability. Perf...
Marcelo De Barros, Jing Shiau, Chen Shang, Kenton ...