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PRDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
FBD: A Fault-tolerant Buffering Disk System for Improving Write Performance of RAID5 Systems
The parity calculation technique of the RAID5 provides high reliability, efficient disk space usage, and good read performance for parallel-disk-array configurations. However, it ...
Haruo Yokota, Masanori Goto
PRDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Networked Windows NT System Field Failure Data Analysis
This paper presents a measurement-based dependability study of a Networked Windows NT system based on field data collected from NT System Logs from 503 servers running in a produc...
Jun Xu, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer
PRDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Architecture-Based Software Reliability Model
In this paper we present an analytical model for estimating architecture-based software reliability, according to the reliability of each component, the operational profile, and t...
Wen-Li Wang, Ye Wu, Mei-Hwa Chen
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Transparent Word-Oriented Memory BIST Based on Symmetric March Algorithms
Abstract. The paper presents a new approach to transparent BIST for wordoriented RAMs which is based on the transformation of March transparent test algorithms to the symmetric ver...
Vyacheslav N. Yarmolik, I. V. Bykov, Sybille Helle...
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Achieving Fault-Tolerant Ordered Broadcasts in CAN
The paper focuses on the problem to guarantee reliable and ordered message delivery to the operational sites of a CAN-Bus network. The contributions of the paper are firstly a hard...
Jörg Kaiser, Mohammad Ali Livani
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Considering Workload Input Variations in Error Coverage Estimation
The effects of variations in the workload input when estimating error detection coverage using fault injection are investigated. Results from scanchain implemented fault injection ...
Peter Folkesson, Johan Karlsson
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Dependability Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems
Abstract. In this paper we present a new modelling approach for dependability evaluation and sensitivity analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems, based on a Deterministic and Sto...
Andrea Bondavalli, Ivan Mura, Kishor S. Trivedi
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Reliable Real-Time Group Communication for Wireless Local Area Networks
We consider teams of mobile autonomous robot systems that coordinate their work via communication over a wireless local area network. In such a scenario, timely delivery and group...
Michael Mock, Edgar Nett, Stefan Schemmer
EDCC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Fault Tolerant Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Systems with Low-Precision Oscillators
In this paper we present a new fault tolerant clock synchronization algorithm called the Fault Tolerant Daisy Chain algorithm. It is intended for internal clock synchronization of...
Henrik Lönn
BIRTHDAY
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Insertion into the Chomsky Hierarchy?
This review paper will report on some recent discoveries in the area of Formal Languages, chie y by F. Otto, G. Buntrock and G. Niemann. These discoveries have pointed out certain ...
Robert McNaughton