DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Device scaling and large integration increase the vulnerability of microprocessors to transient errors. One of the structures where errors can be most harmful is the register ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
When employing a consensus algorithm for state machine replication, should one optimize for the case that all communication links are usually timely, or for fewer timely links? Do...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Testing is a difficult process that becomes more difficult with scaling. With smaller and faster devices, tolerance for errors shrinks and devices may act correctly under certain ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
As wireless hotspot business becomes a tremendous financial success, users of these networks have increasing motives to misbehave in order to obtain more bandwidth at the expense...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
In a peer-to-peer overlay network, hosts cooperate to forward messages. When a message does not reach its final destination, there are two possible explanations. An intermediate ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Cryptography has become an indispensable mechanism for securing systems, communications and applications. While offering strong protection, cryptography makes the assumption that ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
As server consolidation using virtual machines (VMs) is carried out, software aging of virtual machine monitors (VMMs) is becoming critical. Performance degradation or crash failu...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Modern computers interact with many kinds of external devices, which have lead to a state where device drivers (DD) account for a substantial part of the operating system (OS) cod...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Dependability is a key factor in any software system due to the potential costs in both time and money a failure may cause. Given the complexity of Grid applications that rely on ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
The success of sensor-driven applications is reliant on whether a steady stream of data can be provided by the underlying system. This need, however, poses great challenges to sen...