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DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Resource and virtualization costs up in the cloud: Models and design choices
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Modeling time correlation in passive network loss tomography
—We consider the problem of inferring link loss rates using passive measurements. Prior inference approaches are mainly built on the time correlation nature of packet losses. How...
Jin Cao, Aiyou Chen, Patrick P. C. Lee
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Coercing clients into facilitating failover for object delivery
Abstract—Application-level protocols used for object delivery, such as HTTP, are built atop TCP/IP and inherit its hostabstraction. Given that these services are replicated for s...
Wyatt Lloyd, Michael J. Freedman
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Coerced Cache Eviction and discreet mode journaling: Dealing with misbehaving disks
—We present Coerced Cache Eviction (CCE), a new method to force writes to disk in the presence of a disk cache that does not properly obey write-cache configuration or flush re...
Abhishek Rajimwale, Vijay Chidambaram, Deepak Rama...
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Cross-layer resilience using wearout aware design flow
—As process technology shrinks devices, circuits experience accelerated wearout. Monitoring wearout will be critical for improving the efficiency of error detection and correctio...
Bardia Zandian, Murali Annavaram
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Transparent dynamic binding with fault-tolerant cache coherence protocol for chip multiprocessors
—Aggressive technology scaling causes chip multiprocessors increasingly error-prone. Core-level faulttolerant approaches bind two cores to implement redundant execution and error...
Shuchang Shan, Yu Hu, Xiaowei Li
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
LLS: Cooperative integration of wear-leveling and salvaging for PCM main memory
Phase change memory (PCM) has emerged as a promising technology for main memory due to many advan­ tages, such as better scalability, non-volatility and fast read access. However,...
Lei Jiang, Yu Du, Youtao Zhang, Bruce R. Childers,...
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Approximate analysis of blocking queueing networks with temporal dependence
—In this paper we extend the class of MAP queueing networks to include blocking models, which are useful to describe the performance of service instances which have a limited con...
Vittoria de Nitto Persone, Giuliano Casale, Evgeni...
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Communix: A framework for collaborative deadlock immunity
—We present Communix, a collaborative deadlock immunity framework for Java programs. Deadlock immunity enables applications to avoid deadlocks that they previously encountered. D...
Horatiu Jula, Pinar Tözün, George Candea