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DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Improving the Fault Resilience of Overlay Multicast for Media Streaming
This paper addresses the problem of fault resilience of overlay-based live media streaming from two aspects: (1) how to construct a stable multicast tree that minimizes the negati...
Guang Tan, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Honeypot-Aware Advanced Botnet Construction and Maintenance
Because “botnets” can be used for illicit financial gain, they have become quite popular in recent Internet attacks. “Honeypots” have been successfully deployed in many d...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Ryan Cunningham
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs
As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Startup Problem in Fault-Tolerant Time-Triggered Communication
Fault-tolerant time-triggered communication relies on the synchronization of local clocks. The startup problem is the problem of reaching a sufficient degree of synchronization a...
Wilfried Steiner, Hermann Kopetz
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
VoIP Intrusion Detection Through Interacting Protocol State Machines
Being a fast-growing Internet application, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) shares the network resources with the regular Internet traffic, and is susceptible to the existing ...
Hemant Sengar, Duminda Wijesekera, Haining Wang, S...
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A large-scale study of failures in high-performance computing systems
Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations is publicly avai...
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
CADRE: Cycle-Accurate Deterministic Replay for Hardware Debugging
One of the main reasons for the difficulty of hardware verification is that hardware platforms are typically nondeterministic at clock-cycle granularity. Uninitialized state ele...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Josep Torrellas
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Improving BGP Convergence Delay for Large-Scale Failures
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the standard routing protocol used in the Internet for routing packets between the Autonomous Systems (ASes). It is known that BGP can take hundre...
Amit Sahoo, Krishna Kant, Prasant Mohapatra
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assessing the Attack Threat due to IRC Channels
This practical experience report presents the results of an investigation into the threat of attacks associated with the chat medium IRC. A combination of simulated users (i.e., b...
Robert Meyer, Michel Cukier
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Verification of Memory Consistency in Cache-Coherent Multithreaded Computer Architectures
—Multithreaded servers with cache-coherent shared memory are the dominant type of machines used to run critical network services and database management systems. To achieve the h...
Albert Meixner, Daniel J. Sorin