Conventional processor fault tolerance based on time/space redundancy is robust but prohibitively expensive for commodity processors. This paper explores an unconventional approac...
Abstract—System availability is difficult for systems to maintain in the face of Internet worms. Large systems have vulnerabilities, and if a system attempts to continue operati...
Daniela A. S. de Oliveira, Jedidiah R. Crandall, G...
Parfait is a bug checker of C code that has been designed to address developers’ requirements of scalability (support millions of lines of code in a reasonable amount of time), ...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
A flooding-based search mechanism is often used in unstructured P2P systems. Although a flooding-based search mechanism is simple and easy to implement, it is vulnerable to overla...