Many system errors do not emerge unless some intricate sequence of events occurs. In practice, this means that most systems have errors that only trigger after days or weeks of ex...
Madanlal Musuvathi, David Y. W. Park, Andy Chou, D...
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
Overlay networks are widely used to deploy functionality at edge nodes without changing network routers. Each node in an overlay network maintains pointers to a set of neighbor no...
Atul Singh, Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Antony ...
Continuous and reliable operation of WSNs is notoriously difficult to guarantee due to hardware degradation and environmental changes. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a ...