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DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Efficient Hierarchic Management For Reconfiguration of Networked Information Systems
The management of modern distributed systems is complicated by scale and dynamics. Scalable, decoupled communication establishes flexible, loosely coupled component relationships,...
Jonathan C. Rowanhill, Philip E. Varner, John C. K...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Dependable Adaptive Real-Time Applications in Wormhole-based Systems
This paper describes and discusses the work carried on in the context of the CORTEX project, for the development of adaptive real-time applications in wormhole based systems. The ...
Pedro Martins, Paulo Jorge Paiva de Sousa, Antonio...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On Failure Dependent Protection in Optical Grooming Networks
Resiliency to link failures in optical networks is becoming increasingly important due to the increasing data rate in the fiber. Path protection schemes attempt to guarantee a bac...
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Framework for Dynamic Byzantine Storage
We present a framework for transforming several quorum-based protocols so that they can dynamically adapt their failure threshold and server count, allowing them to be reconfigure...
Jean-Philippe Martin, Lorenzo Alvisi
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Caching-Enhanced Scalable Reliable Multicast
We present the Caching-Enhanced Scalable Reliable Multicast (CESRM) protocol. CESRM augments the Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM) protocol [4,5] with a caching-based expedited re...
Carolos Livadas, Idit Keidar
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Proactive Recovery in Distributed CORBA Applications
Unanticipated runtime events, such as faults, can lead to missed deadlines in real-time systems. While it is not always possible to know when a fault will occur, we can sometimes ...
Soila M. Pertet, Priya Narasimhan
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Diverse Firewall Design
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. An error in a firewall policy either creates security hole...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Fault Tolerance Tradeoffs in Moving from Decentralized to Centralized Embedded Systems
Some safety-critical distributed embedded systems may need to use centralized components to achieve certain dependability properties. The difficulty in combining centralized and d...
Jennifer Morris, Daniel Kroening, Philip Koopman
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Safety Optimization: A Combination of Fault Tree Analysis and Optimization Techniques
Abstract-We present a new form of quantitative safety analysis safety optimization. This method is a combination of fault tree analysis(FTA) and mathematical optimization technique...
Frank Ortmeier, Wolfgang Reif