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DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Survivability quantification of communication services
Our society is heavily dependent on a wide variety of communication services. These services must be available even when undesirable events like sabotage, natural disasters, or ne...
Poul E. Heegaard, Kishor S. Trivedi
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Reliability of flat XOR-based erasure codes on heterogeneous devices
XOR-based erasure codes are a computationallyefficient means of generating redundancy in storage systems. Some such erasure codes provide irregular fault tolerance: some subsets o...
Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Jay J. Wylie
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Detouring: Translating software to circumvent hard faults in simple cores
CMOS technology trends are leading to an increasing incidence of hard (permanent) faults in processors. These faults may be introduced at fabrication or occur in the field. Wherea...
Albert Meixner, Daniel J. Sorin
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Experiences with formal specification of fault-tolerant file systems
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
Roxana Geambasu, Andrew Birrell, John MacCormick
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Convicting exploitable software vulnerabilities: An efficient input provenance based approach
Software vulnerabilities are the root cause of a wide range of attacks. Existing vulnerability scanning tools are able to produce a set of suspects. However, they often suffer fro...
Zhiqiang Lin, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
An accurate flip-flop selection technique for reducing logic SER
The combination of continued technology scaling and increased on-chip transistor densities has made vulnerability to radiation induced soft errors a significant design concern. In...
Eric L. Hill, Mikko H. Lipasti, Kewal K. Saluja
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Using an assurance case to support independent assessment of the transition to a new GPS ground control system
We describe a specific application of assurance cases to the problem of ensuring that a transition from a legacy system to its replacement will not compromise mission assurance ob...
Elisabeth A. Nguyen, William S. Greenwell, Myron H...
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Enhanced server fault-tolerance for improved user experience
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environ...
Manish Marwah, Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Analyzing the effects of disk-pointer corruption
The long-term availability of data stored in a file system depends on how well it safeguards on-disk pointers used to access the data. Ideally, a system would correct all pointer...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Meenali Rungta, Nitin ...
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Combined circuit and microarchitecture techniques for effective soft error robustness in SMT processors
As semiconductor technology scales, reliability is becoming an increasingly crucial challenge in microprocessor design. The rSRAM and voltage scaling are two promising circuit-lev...
Xin Fu, Tao Li, José A. B. Fortes