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SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Swift Algorithms for Repeated Consensus
We introduce the notion of a swift algorithm. Informally, an algorithm that solves the repeated consensus is swift if, in a partial synchronous run of this algorithm, eventually no...
Fatemeh Borran, Martin Hutle, Nuno Santos, Andr&ea...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Shedding Light on Enterprise Network Failures Using Spotlight
Abstract--Fault localization in enterprise networks is extremely challenging. A recent approach called Sherlock makes some headway into this problem by using an inference algorithm...
Dipu John, Pawan Prakash, Ramana Rao Kompella, Ran...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Entity-Centric Approach for Privacy and Identity Management in Cloud Computing
Entities (e.g., users, services) have to authenticate themselves to service providers (SPs) in order to use their services. An entity provides personally identifiable information (...
Pelin Angin, Bharat K. Bhargava, Rohit Ranchal, No...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Invariants Based Failure Diagnosis in Distributed Computing Systems
This paper presents an instance based approach to diagnosing failures in computing systems. Owing to the fact that a large portion of occurred failures are repeated ones, our meth...
Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Kenji Yoshihira, Akhil...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Crash-Tolerant Collision-Free Data Aggregation Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks
Data aggregation scheduling, or convergecast, is a fundamental pattern of communication in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where sensor nodes aggregate and relay data to a sink no...
Arshad Jhumka
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Lightweight Fault-Tolerance for Peer-to-Peer Middleware
We address the problem of providing transparent, lightweight, fault-tolerance mechanisms for generic peer-to-peer middleware systems. The main idea is to use the peer-to-peer overl...
Rolando Martins, Priya Narasimhan, Luis Lopes, Fer...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
VMDriver: A Driver-Based Monitoring Mechanism for Virtualization
Monitoring virtual machine (VM) is an essential function for virtualized platforms. Existing solutions are either coarse-grained
Guofu Xiang, Hai Jin, Deqing Zou, Xinwen Zhang, Sh...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
P-Store: Genuine Partial Replication in Wide Area Networks
Partial replication is a way to increase the scalability of replicated systems since updates only need to be applied to a subset of the system's sites, thus allowing replicas...
Nicolas Schiper, Pierre Sutra, Fernando Pedone
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Protection of Identity Information in Cloud Computing without Trusted Third Party
Cloud computing allows the use of Internet-based services to support business processes and rental of IT-services on a utility-like basis. It offers a concentration of resources bu...
Rohit Ranchal, Bharat K. Bhargava, Lotfi Ben Othma...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
DKSM: Subverting Virtual Machine Introspection for Fun and Profit
Virtual machine (VM) introspection is a powerful technique for determining the specific aspects of guest VM execution from outside the VM. Unfortunately, existing introspection so...
Sina Bahram, Xuxian Jiang, Zhi Wang, Mike Grace, J...