Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...
In this paper we propose a hardware real time operating system (HW-RTOS) solution that makes use of a dedicated hardware in order to replace the standard support provided by the P...
Sathish Chandra, Francesco Regazzoni, Marcello Laj...
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems rely heavily on the willingness of users to distribute files to others. A selfish user can choose to download a file and consume resou...
Memory systems consume a significant portion of power in handheld embedded systems. So far, low-power memory techniques have addressed the power consumption when the system is tu...
Abstract. We describe and model a new aspect in the design of distributed information systems. We build upon a previously described problem on the microlevel, which asks how quickl...