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DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient High Hamming Distance CRCs for Embedded Networks
Cyclic redundancy codes (CRCs) are widely used in network transmission and data storage applications because they provide better error detection than lighter weight checksum techn...
Justin Ray, Philip Koopman
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Empirical and Analytical Evaluation of Systems with Multiple Unreliable Servers
We construct, analyze and solve models of systems where a number of servers offer services to an incoming stream of demands. Each server goes through alternating periods of being ...
Jennie Palmer, Isi Mitrani
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Attack Injection to Discover New Vulnerabilities
Due to our increasing reliance on computer systems, security incidents and their causes are important problems that need to be addressed. To contribute to this objective, the pape...
Nuno Ferreira Neves, João Antunes, Miguel C...
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Barbarians in the Gate: An Experimental Validation of NIC-based Distributed Firewall Performance and Flood Tolerance
This paper presents our experience validating the flood tolerance of two network interface card (NIC)-based embedded firewall solutions, the Embedded Firewall (EFW) and the Autono...
Michael Ihde, William H. Sanders
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Lucky Read/Write Access to Robust Atomic Storage
This paper establishes tight bounds on the best-case time-complexity of distributed atomic read/write storage implementations that tolerate worst-case conditions. We study asynchr...
Rachid Guerraoui, Ron R. Levy, Marko Vukolic
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficiently Detecting All Dangling Pointer Uses in Production Servers
In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect all dangling pointer uses at run-time that is efficient enough for production use in server codes. One idea (previously used ...
Dinakar Dhurjati, Vikram S. Adve
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Contribution Towards Solving the Web Workload Puzzle
World Wide Web, the biggest distributed system ever built, experiences tremendous growth and change in Web sites, users, and technology. A realistic and accurate characterization ...
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Fengbin Li, Xuan Wan...
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Approach for Detecting and Distinguishing Errors versus Attacks in Sensor Networks
Distributed sensor networks are highly prone to accidental errors and malicious activities, owing to their limited resources and tight interaction with the environment. Yet only a...
Claudio Basile, Meeta Gupta, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, ...
DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assessment of the Effect of Memory Page Retirement on System RAS Against Hardware Faults
The Solaris 10 Operating System includes a number of new features for predictive self-healing. One such feature is the ability of the Fault Management software to diagnose memory ...
Dong Tang, Peter Carruthers, Zuheir Totari, Michae...