The growing interest in ad hoc wireless network applications that are made of large and dense populations of lightweight system resources calls for scalable approaches to fault to...
It is often the case that safety-critical systems have to be reconfigured during operation because of issues such as changes in the system's operating environment or the fail...
Hierarchical systems have been widely used to provide scalable distributed services in the Internet. Unfortunately, such a service hierarchy is vulnerable to DoS attacks. This pap...
Hao Yang, Haiyun Luo, Yi Yang, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zh...
The relentless scaling of CMOS technology has provided a steady increase in processor performance for the past three decades. However, increased power densities (hence temperature...
Jayanth Srinivasan, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose, J...
Voice over IP (VoIP) systems are gaining in popularity as the technology for transmitting voice traffic over IP networks. As the popularity of VoIP systems increases, they are bei...
If we limit the contact rate of worm traffic, can we alleviate and ultimately contain Internet worms? This paper sets out to answer this question. Specifically, we are interested ...
Cynthia Wong, Chenxi Wang, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Sta...
We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
The progression of implementation technologies into the sub-100 nanometer lithographies renew the importance of understanding and protecting against single-event upsets in digital...
Nicholas J. Wang, Justin Quek, Todd M. Rafacz, San...
This paper presents a scalable mechanism, Fast Routing Table Recovery (FRTR), for detecting and correcting route inconsistencies between neighboring BGP routers. The large size of...
This paper proposes an application-transparent, low-overhead checkpointing strategy for maintaining consistency of control structures in a commercial main memory database (MMDB) sy...
Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iye...