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2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Small Byzantine Quorum Systems
In this paper we present two protocols for asynchronous Byzantine Quorum Systems (BQS) built on top of reliable channels—one for self-verifying data and the other for any data. ...
Jean-Philippe Martin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahl...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Reducing the Cost of Group Communication with Semantic View Synchrony
View Synchrony (VS) is a powerful abstraction in the design and implementation of dependable distributed systems. By ensuring that processes deliver the same set of messages in ea...
José Orlando Pereira, Luís Rodrigues...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Ditto Processor
Concentration of design effort for current single-chip Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) microprocessors has been directed towards performance. Reliability has not been the primary ...
Shih-Chang Lai, Shih-Lien Lu, Jih-Kwon Peir
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
32-Bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes for Internet Applications
Standardized 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes provide fewer bits of guaranteed error detection than they could, achieving a Hamming Distance (HD) of only 4 for maximum-length Ethern...
Philip Koopman
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
On the Placement of Software Mechanisms for Detection of Data Errors
An important aspect in the development of dependable software is to decide where to locate mechanisms for efficient error detection and recovery. We present a comparison between ...
Martin Hiller, Arshad Jhumka, Neeraj Suri
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Model Checking Performability Properties
Model checking has been introduced as an automated technique to verify whether functional properties, expressed in a formal logic like computational tree logic (CTL), do hold in a...
Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Lucia Cloth, Holger Herman...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Time-Constrained Failure Diagnosis in Distributed Embedded Systems
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
Nagarajan Kandasamy, John P. Hayes, Brian T. Murra...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Model Checking Safety Properties of Servo-Loop Control Systems
This paper presents the experiences of using a symbolic model checker to check the safety properties of a servoloop control system. Symbolic model checking has been shown to be be...
M. Edwin Johnson
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Detecting Processor Hardware Faults by Means of Automatically Generated Virtual Duplex Systems
A virtual duplex system (VDS) can be used to increase safety without the use of structural redundancy on a single machine. If a deterministic program P is calculating a given func...
Markus Jochim
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
A Portable and Fault-Tolerant Microprocessor Based on the SPARC V8 Architecture
The architecture and implementation of the LEON-FT processor is presented. LEON-FT is a fault-tolerant 32-bit processor based on the SPARC V8 instruction set. The processors toler...
Jiri Gaisler