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DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Architecture-Level Soft Error Analysis: Examining the Limits of Common Assumptions
This paper concerns the validity of a widely used method for estimating the architecture-level mean time to failure (MTTF) due to soft errors. The method first calculates the fai...
Xiaodong Li, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose, Jude A. ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Utilizing Dynamically Coupled Cores to Form a Resilient Chip Multiprocessor
Aggressive CMOS scaling will make future chip multiprocessors (CMPs) increasingly susceptible to transient faults, hard errors, manufacturing defects, and process variations. Exis...
Christopher LaFrieda, Engin Ipek, José F. M...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Case for FEC-Based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks
Many important applications in wireless mesh networks require reliable multicast communication. Previously, Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques have been proved successful f...
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Failure Resilience for Device Drivers
Studies have shown that device drivers and extensions contain 3–7 times more bugs than other operating system code and thus are more likely to fail. Therefore, we present a fail...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assurance Based Development of Critical Systems
  Assurance Based Development (ABD) is the synergistic construction of a critical computing system and an  assurance  case  that  sets  out  the  dependabilit...
Patrick J. Graydon, John C. Knight, Elisabeth A. S...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Electing an Eventual Leader in an Asynchronous Shared Memory System
This paper considers the problem of electing an eventual leader in an asynchronous shared memory system. While this problem has received a lot of attention in messagepassing syste...
Antonio Fernández, Ernesto Jiménez, ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Enhanced Reliability Modeling of RAID Storage Systems
A flexible model for estimating reliability of RAID storage systems is presented. This model corrects errors associated with the common assumption that system times to failure fol...
Jon G. Elerath, Michael Pecht
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Computing Battery Lifetime Distributions
The usage of mobile devices like cell phones, navigation systems, or laptop computers, is limited by the lifetime of the included batteries. This lifetime depends naturally on the...
Lucia Cloth, Marijn R. Jongerden, Boudewijn R. Hav...