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2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks
A Federated Array of Bricks is a scalable distributed storage system composed from inexpensive storage bricks. It achieves high reliability with low cost by using erasure coding a...
Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the Impact of Limited Resource on the Performance of Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract-- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are large collections of resource limited nodes, densely deployed over a landscape. They gather and disseminate local data using multihop...
Patrick Downey, Rachel Cardell-Oliver
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Intrusion Tolerance and Anti-Traffic Analysis Strategies For Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks face acute security concerns in applications such as battlefield monitoring. A central point of failure in a sensor network is the base station, which act...
Jing Deng, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Experience with Evaluating Human-Assisted Recovery Processes
We describe an approach to quantitatively evaluating human-assisted failure-recovery tools and processes in the environment of modern Internet- and enterprise-class server systems...
Aaron B. Brown, Leonard Chung, William Kakes, Calv...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Fault Tolerant Computation on Ensemble Quantum Computers
In ensemble (or bulk) quantum computation, all computations are performed on an ensemble of computers rather than on a single computer. Measurements of qubits in an individual com...
P. Oscar Boykin, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Tal Mor, F...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Tolerating Hard Faults in Microprocessor Array Structures
In this paper, we present a hardware technique, called Self-Repairing Array Structures (SRAS), for masking hard faults in microprocessor array structures, such as the reorder buff...
Fred A. Bower, Paul G. Shealy, Sule Ozev, Daniel J...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Implementing Simple Replication Protocols using CORBA Portable Interceptors and Java Serialization
The goal of this paper is to assess the value of simple features that are widely available in off-the-shelf CORBA and Java platforms for the implementation of faulttolerance mecha...
Taha Bennani, Laurent Blain, Ludovic Courtè...